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A 

COMPENDIUM 



oug doctrines, religious and moral precepts^ 

HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE BEAUTIES 

OF THE BIBLE; 

WITH 
A SEPARATE MORAL SELECTION 

FROM THE APOCRYPHA; 



A TRANSCRIPT OF TUB RECEIVED TEXT : 

Intended for the use of Families and Schools-' 



SIXTH EDITION- 






Br RODOLPHUS DICKINSON, Esa. 

Author of Law Tracts, Geographical Publications, &e* 



DEERFIELD, MASS. 
PUBLISHED AT THE COMPILER'S OFTIC& 

Newcomb &c Wells, Printers, 
1S17. 



DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO 1 WIT! 

DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. 

BE it remembered, that on the twenty fourth day of Feb- 
ruary, a. d. 1815, and in the thirty ninth year of the Indepen- 
dence of the United States of America, Ropolphl s Dickinson, 
of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, 
the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, 
to wit : 

" A Compendium of the religious doctrines, religions and 
moral precepts, historical and descriptive beauties of the Bible ; 
with a seperate moral selection from the Apocrypha; being a 
transcript of the received text : intended for the use of fami- 
lies, and schools : Second edition, revised, corrected, and en- 
larged : by RoDOLPRUs Dickinson, Esq. Author of Law 
Tracts, Geographical Publications, &c. 

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United 
States, entitled, " an act for . the encouragement of learning, 
by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the au- 
thors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein 
mentioned ;" and also to an act, entitled, " an act supplemen- 
tary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learn- 
ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the 
authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein 
mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of 
d^ieniner, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." 
WILLIAM S. SHAW, 
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts, 



CONTEXTS. 

Attributes and Government of God 15 

2. Attributes, Life, and Example of 
our Lord Jesus Christ 26 

3. Attributes, or Offices of the Holy 
Ghost - - - 38 

4. Baptism 41 

5. Beneficence 45 

6. Benevolence 47 

7. Charity - - - 48 

8. Chastity --- 49 

9. Commandments - - 51 

10. Contentment - - 52 

11. Counsel - - - 52 

12. Covetousness 54 

13. Creation 57 

14. Crucifixion, Death, and Burial, of 
our Lord Jesus Christ - 60 

15. Depravity of Man - 64 

16. Doctrine of the Trinity - 69 

17. Duties of Christian Brethren 77 

18. Duties to Enemies - 80 

19. Duties to God - - 81 
£0. Duties of Husbands and Wives 85 
£1. Duties of Magistrates and Citizens 87 
£2. Duties to Mankind - 91 
£3. Duties of Masters and Servants 93 
£4. Duties of Ministers and People 94 
&5. Duties of Parents and Children 101 
26. Envy 103 



CONTENTS. 






27. Equality - - 104 

28. Evil-Speaking - - 105 
£9. Faith and Works - 106 
SO. Fasting 110 
Si. Fidelity - - - 111 

32. Flood - - - lil 

33. Forgiveness - - 114 

34. Fortitude - - - 115 

35. Frailty and Imperfection of Man 116 

36. Fraud, Oppression, and Violence 119 

37. Friendship - - 122 

38. Future Happiness and Misery 123 

39. Godliness - - 126 

40. Government of the Thoughts , Lan- 
guage, and Passions - 1 28 

41. Grace 130 

42. Hospitality - - 136 

43. Humility 137 

44. Hypocrisy - - 141 

45. Idolatry 143 

46. Immortality, Resurrection, and 
Future Judgment - - 145 

47. Industry 150 

48. Integrity - - - 154 

49. Justice, and Impartiality - 155 

50. Kingdom and Church of our Lord 
Jesus Christ - - 158 

51. Lord's Supper - - 159 

52. Love - - - 161 

53. Marriage - - - 162 

54. Meekness - " . " l63 

55. Mercy and compassion - 163 

56. Miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ 165 

57. Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ 173 

58. Original State of Man, Sin, the 
Fall, and Death - - 174 



CONTENTS. 3 

59. Parables of our Lord Jesus Christ 177 
60 Patience - - - 181 

61. Peace - - - 182 

62. Perseverance - - 184 

63. Politeness - - 189 

64. Prayer - - - 190 

65. Profanity, Blasphemy ,and Perjury 19& 

66. Prosperity and Adversity 194 

67. Prudence - - 198 

68. Public Worship - - 199 

69. Redemption and Salvation 200 

70. Regeneration - - 205 

71. Repentance - - 208 

72. Resurrection, Appearance, and 
Ascension, of our Lord Jesus 
Christ - - - 215 

73. Retribution - - 222 

74. Righteousness - - 225 

75. Sabbath - - 227 

76. Scriptures - - 228 

77. Sincerity and Truth - 232 

78. Stability - - 23S 

79. Temperance - - 234 

80. Theft and Trespass - 236 
fel. Vigilance - - 237 

82. Wickedness - - 237 

83. Wisdom and Understanding 238 

84. Zeal - . - 242 

85. Miscellaneous Selection - 244 
Miscellaneous Moral Selection 

from the Apocrypha - 247 



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RECOMMENDATIONS. 

Of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lathrop, of West-Springfield. 
DEAR SIR, 

I thank you for the present you have 
made me of your Compendium of the Doctrines 
and Precepts of the Bible. I have perused it 
as far as I have had leisure: am happy to find, 
that you have collected all or most of the truths 
and virtues stated in the Scriptures, with their 
opposite errors and vices ; and in application to 
them have adduced the most pertinent passages, 
so that we have a compendious view, of the sub- 
stance of what inspiration has taught on those 
various subjects. The Book, I think, may bevery 
useful in families and schools. 

I rejoice, sir, whenever gentlemen in civil life, 
under the impression of Divine Truth, become 
fellow workers with the ministers of Jesus in the 
same great cause ; and I hope, that by their united 
exertions, the kingdom of the Redeemer may be 
promoted, and the most essential interests of; 
mankind advanced. 

I am, sir, with respect, your humble servant, ' 
JOSEPH LATHROP. 



Oi the Rev. Dr. Edward D. Griffin, of Boston. 



SIR 



I have read a sufficient portion of your Com- 
pendium, to form a judgment of your plan and 
of the manner of its execution. The design of 
presenting the great truths and duties of religion 
under distinct heads, in the language pf Scripture! 



3 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

and giving an opportunity to see, at one view, in 
how many forms the same sentiment is expressed 
and explained in the Sacred Oracles, was happily 
conceived. Let the Bible speak for itself, and it 
will speak intelligibly to every unprejudiced mind; 
and if any thing can conquer prejudice itself, it is 
such a mode of throwing together the various de- 
clarations of Scripture on the same point. The 
execution, although it admits of degrees of im- 
provement almost without end, has, in this first 
attempt, attained a character highly creditable to 
the industry and judgment of the Compiler. Such 
a Compendium, while it will furnish important 
aid to inaturer minds, will be of special service 
" as a Reading Book for Schools," and if gener- 
ally adopted, may have incalculable influence in 
settling the faith, and forming the religious char- 
acter ot the rising generation. You have my hearty 
thanks for this service to the cause of truth, and my 
warmest wishes for the success of your interesting 
volume. EDWARD D. GRibFIN. 

Of the Rev. Samuel Taggart, of Colrain, Member of Congress, 
PEAR SIR, 

I have perused but partially your Com- 
pendium of religious doctrines, and of religious 
and moral precepts conceived in the language of 
Scripture. I am much pleased with the design, 
and hope it may be a means of introducing the 
Bible into Schools, which has been of late years, 
too much excluded, and thereby tend to the 
increase of religious knowledge. The improve- 
ments which such a work will admit, are almost 
without limits : some of which your own reflec* 
^ions will suggest in a future edition. 

I am, respectfully, your?. S. TAQGART, 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 9 

Of the Rev. John Taylor, Esq. Knficld, late minister of Dcerfield. 
SIR, 

I have examined the work entitled " A 
Compendium of the Religious Doctrines, Reli- 
gious ami Moral Precepts, Historical and De- 
scriptive Beauties of the Bible, &c." and find 
it a work calculated to promote a general knowl- 
edge of the Scriptures. The texts introduced 
to prove and illustrate the several subjects, of 
which the work is composed, appear to be im- 
partially chosen and judiciously arranged. I 
hope, Sir, for the benefit of society, that this 
" Compendium" may be duly appreciated by 
parents, and introduced into their families and 
schools, to the exclusion of many volumes far 
less useful. JOHN TAYLOR. 

Of the Rev. Samuel Willard of Deerfield. 

Sir, I have given your Compendium a hasty, 
but careful perusal. The design is laudable, the 
general plan, as I conceive, judicious ; and the 
execution, with a few exceptions, and those of 
minor importance, highly satisfactory. In most, 
if not all the excepted cases, you may have been 
governed by adequate reasons, that have not oc- 
curred to me. I rejoice in seeing the doctrinal 
and preceptive parts of our blessed religion dis- 
played in the engaging form they generally wear 
in your Compendium ; and I think that the chris- 
tian parent, as well as the schoolmaster, will, with 
the blessing of God, find your book of vast benefit 
in a course of religious education. ■ 

Yours, SAMUEL WILLARD. 



Of the Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, President of Williams College. 

Sir, Your Compendium of the doctrines and 



10 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

Precepts of the Bible was, a few days since, put 
into my hands. 1 have devoted the little leisure, 
which my necessary duties and daily avocations 
left me, to perusing the Work and comparing 
the second edition with the first. The plan of 
the Work is, I think, judicious ; and the selection 
and arrangement of Scripture passages under the 
several heads manifest great labour and impar- 
tiality* and a good acquaintance with the Sacred 
Oracles. The execution of your plan doubt- 
less admits of improvement. But as the Work 
is now presented to the public, I think it calcu- 
lated to be highly useful to private christians 
and families, and especially to the rising gene- 
ration. I should be glad to see it introduced 
as a Reading Book in all our common schools. 
The happy consequence, I think, would be, the 
improvement of children and youth in moral and 
religious knowledge, and eventually, through 
divine grace, in the practice of true virtue and 
piety. You have my cordial approbation of your 
labors and endeavors to promote this highly im- 
portant object, and my fervent wishes that they 
may be abundantly successful. 

EBENEZER FITCH. 

Of the Rev. Eliplialet Nott, President of Union College., 

SXR J 

I have partially examined the compilation 

entitled Ji Compendium of Religious Doctrines, 

&c. The plan meets my entire approbation ; and 

it appears to have been executed with candour 

and ability. It is in my opinion a Book worthy 

©f being introduced both into families and schools. 

EL1PHALET NOTT 



PREFACE. 

The compiler is aware of the unusual responsi- 
bility incurred by this publication. He can how- 
oven sincerely affirm, that it has been his uniform 
and anxious design, to present to the public, an 
impartial compendium and digest of the religion 
and morals of the Bible. While the work is heart- 
ily intended to be a fair exhibition of the scriptur- 
al doctrines and ordinances of Christianity, it 
contains a body of moral instruction, and prob- 
ably more of the rules of faith and conduct, 
than are comprised within the same extent, in 
any other compilation It denounces vice and 
error, enforces piety and virtue, unfolds the per- 
fections of the Deity, and the most important 
facts relating to divine Providence, and the sal- 
vation of mankind. It displays alike the faith 
and practice, the commands and promises of 
the Gospel ; and is consecrated to the heavenly 
cause of evangelical religion. Such historical 
titles have also been included, as were considered 
indispensable to the plan of a work, intended 
for the most part as a manual of religion. He 
is not conscious of having been under the influ- 
ence of any sentiments unfavourable to the im- 
partial execution of it ; nor, as every word is 
copied from the Scriptures, has he been disposed 
to be wise above what is written. He has adopt- 
ed the received text, as an invariable guide, and 
disclaiming the most distant intention of omit- 
ting any subject compatible with the nature and 
limits of the work, or of adding or diminishing 



12 PREFACE. 

upon any subject, with a view to any opinions not 
warranted by the whole tenor of the Scriptures, 
has faithfully endeavoured, as far as practicable, 
to offer to the public, in a form that would be in- 
viting, a miniature representation of the great 
principles of divine morality and religion. 

He has attempted such an arrangement of the 
chapters as would give facility of reference : 
and has diligently sought to digest them upon a 
comprehensive and systematic plan ; so that each 
should exhibit, not only, a just summary of the 
great truths comprising it. but also a regular 
composition, as far as the subject would admit; 
from which it will be perceived that it has been 
attended with no inconsiderable labour. 

As the clergyman has his expositions, the 
lawyer his digest of cases and precedents, the 
physician his dispensatory, the legislator his 
statutes, the soldier his book of tactics, the sea- 
man his nautical epitome, the farmer his manual 
of husbandry, the mechanic his secrets of the 
arts, and every other professor his hand book to 
consult in difficulties, will not every man, to 
whatever profession he may belong, be gratified 
with a compendium of the more essential princi- 
ples and duties of life, derived from a perfect and 
infallible directory? It would be a disparage- 
ment to the public taste, and to the moral and 
religious character of a professedly Christian, 
country to suppose that the most -humble effort to 
recal the mind to the great doctrinal and prac- 
tical truths of our blessed religion, infinitely 
surpassing all other subjects in importance, and 
even as specimens of fine writing, all the produc- 
tions of uninspired men, would not be indulgent- 
ly received. A judicious and well executed work 



PREFACE. 13 

♦presenting at a single view the elegant and divine 
system of Chris tianit y, in the language of the 
9acred Scriptures, must at least, be a welcome 
tribute to the truly enlightened and the good. 
Should such be the character of this work, it 
might be presumed that the pure morals, sublime 
and eternally interesting doctrines which it com- 
prises, wouid in this, where they might not in 
other forms, claim the serious and devout con- 
sideration of readers, and in some degree produce 
their benign and legitimate effects upon the life ; 
that the work would also tend to direct the at- 
tention to that inexhaustible fountain of good 
from whence it is derived, and contribute to in- 
spire a love for the frequent and diligent perusal 
of the Word of God. 

Though the work be designed as a school book 
for the instruction of youth, and of those in the 
earlier stages of life, it is conceived to be not less 
adapted to readers in general. To all whose 
attention may be arrested by unexampled sim- 
plicity, beauty, variety- grandeur, and sublimity 
of matter and of style ; to all who wish to pos- 
sess an outline of the religious and moral excel- 
lencies of the sacred Volume, to all who have 
hitherto viewed that invaluable Book with in- 
difference, but may_,perhaps derive some happy 
impressions from a novel exhibition of a part of 
its interesting contents : to all teachers and pa- 
rents who deem it impoi tant that children should 
be early instructed in the inestimable doctrines 
and precepts of revealed religion^ to all who re- 
the unernfcg ana everlasting Word of God, 
who believe and love the gospel in sincerity, and 
u earnestly contend for the faith which was once 
delivered to the saints : w this little volume is 
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14 PREFACE. 

respectfully inscribed : and the blessing of Hea- 
ven fur its usefulness, humbly implored. 

In offering to his friends and fellow-citizens^ 
this tribute of devotion to the most interesting 
cause, the compiler cannot omit the opportunity 
of bearing the public testimony of his homage to 
the divine excellence of the Christian religion. 
He deems it a sacred duty, and it affords him 
great pleasure, to state, as the result of his very 
limited, but as he trusts dispassionate reflection 
upon the Scriptures, that his mind has settled 
down into a solemn and absolute conviction that 
they are " given by inspiration of God $" to avow 
his most sincere admiration of their pure, sub- 
lime, consistent, and eternally important system 
of religion and morals, and unequivocally, his 
most profound veneration of their contents : to 
declare to the world, that he is u not ashamed of 
the Gospel of Christ," having an unshaken confi- 
dence that "it is the power of God unto salva- 
tion, to every one that believeth ;" that by a faith- 
ful obedience to its divine injunctions, and a right 
acceptance of its merciful assurances, it will at 
once swell the measure of the highest earthly hap- 
piness, become a source of ever increasing conso- 
lation in this scene of probation, and lighten the 
way to an eternal world of felicity : presenting to 
the soul, immortal, and boundless in its desires, 
amid the adversities of life, and the fleeting and 
imperfect nature of the most elevated of human 
occupations, enjoyments, and subjects of contem- 
plation, an ultimate, satisfactory, and ever bless- 
ed object of holy ambition, rising, like a majestic 
island, infinitely above the waves of all other 
pursuits. RODOLPHUS DICKINSON. 

Greenfield, (Mass.) 181 r. 



COMPENDIUM OF THE BIBLE. 



chap. i. 

ATTRIBUTES AND GOVERNMENT OF GOD. 

God is love 

Our God isbfpaful. 

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, 
gracious, and full of compassion. He is kind 
unto the unthankful, and to the evil. 

The Lord is of great mercy, forgiving iniquity 
and transgression. He is the faithful God, which 
keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love 
him and keep his commandments. 

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the 
Lord pitieth them that fear him. 

His mercy is on them that fear him from gene- 
ration to generation. His tender mercies are 
over all his works. 

Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and 
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. 

The Lord is long-suffering to us-ward not wil- 
ling that any should perish, but that all should 
come to repentance. 

The Lord God liveth. 



16 COMPENDIUM 

My heart and my flesh crieth out for the Hying 
God. 

The Lord is flie true God. 

God is true. Thy law is the truth. Just and 
true are thy ways. 

The truth of the Lord endureth for ever. 

Justice andjudgment are the habitation of thy 
throne. 

God is faithful. Great is thy faithfulness. 

Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. 

Thou art good and doest good. The Lord is 
good to all. There is none good but one, that is 
God. 

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 

The goodness of God endureth continually. 
How great is his goodness ! 



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Holy and reverend is his nai 

Who is able to stand before i\. / Lord God ? 

Who is like unto thee, O Loi\ ? w r ho is like 
thee, glorious in holiness, fean .1 in praises, 
doing wonders ? 

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy 
in all his works. 

Clouds and darkness are round about him : 
righteousness and judgment are the habitation of 
his throne. 

The heavens declare his righteousness. Thy 
righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. 

God is pure. The words ot the Lord are pure 
words. The commandment of the Lord is pure. 

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, 
and canst not look on iniquity. 

God is great and we know him not. Great 
things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. 



OF THE BIBLE. 17 

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised $ 
and his greatness is unsearchable. 

His understanding is infinite. There is no 
searching of his understanding. 

The Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel, and 
excellent in working, the only wise God. 

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, 
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, 
lull of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, 
and without hypocrisy. 

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? he 
that formed the eye, shall he not see ? he that 
tcacheth man knowledge, shall not he know ? 

The counsel of the Lord stand eth forever. 
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor coun- 
sel against the Lord. 

My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my 
pleasure. 

The Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who 
shall disannul it ? 

Can a man be profitable unto God ? Is it gain 
to him that thou makest thy ways perfect ? 

The Lord is high above all nations, and his 
glory above the heavens. 

All nations before him are as nothing ; and 
they are counted to him less than nothing and 
vanity. 

Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord 
God Almighty. 

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : 
as for the world and the fulness thereof thou hast 
founded them. 

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heaven-, 
is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with ai! 
that therein is. 



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All things are of God. He is the former of 
all things. He that built all things is God. 

In the beginning God created the heaven and 
the earth. 

The Lord by wisdom has founded the earth ; 
by understanding hath he established the heavens. 

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens. 

O Lord how manifold are thy works : in wis- 
dom hast thou made them all. 

Of him, and through him, and to him are all 
things. 

God created man in his own image. Thy 
hands have made me and fashioned me. 

He giveth to all life and breath, and all things. 

Thou hast created all things ; and thou pre- 
servest them alL 

In him we live and move and have our being. 

Thou hast clothed me with skin and ilesh, and 
hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou 
hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation 
hath preserved my soul. 

bless our God, which holdeth our soul in life ! 

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of 
the Lord hath wrought this ? in whose hand is 
the soul of every living thing, and the breath of 
all mankind. 

Except the Lord build the house they labour in 
vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, 
the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for 
you to rise up early, to sit up late. 

Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither 
doth trouble spring out of the ground. 

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and 
one of them shall not fall to the ground without 
your Father. But the very hairs of yOar head are 
all numbered. 



OF THE BIBLE. 19 

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, 
and herb for the service of man. 

The eyes of all wait upon thee ; and thou 
givest them their meat in due season. Thou 
openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of 
every living thing. 

Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and 
evening to rejoice. Thou visitest the earth, and 
waterest it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof 
abundantly : thou settlest the furrows thereof: 
thou makest it soft with showers : thou blessest 
the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year 
with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. 
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; 
and the little hills rejoice on every side. The 
pastures are clothed with flocks : the valleys 
also are covered over with corn. 

The Lord reign eth ; let the earth rejoice. 

His kingdom ruleth overall. The Lord shall 
reign for ever. 

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and 
thy dominion endureth throughout all genera- 
tions. 

He doth according to his will in the army of 
heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. 

The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, 
and giveth it to whomsoever he will. 

The kingdom is the Lord's : and he is the 
Governor among the nations. 

The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as 
the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever 
he will. 

God is a spirit. The Most High dwelleth not 
in temples made with hands. Behold, the heaven 
and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. 



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Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither 
shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up 
into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in 
hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings 
of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts 
of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, 
and thy right hand shall hold me. 

I am God, and there is none like me, declaring 
the end from the beginning, and from ancient 
times the things wljdch are not yet done. God 
calleth those things which be not, as though they 
were. 

Known unto God are all his works from the 
beginning of the world. Neither is time any 
creature that is not manifest in his sight 5 but ait 
things are naked and opened unto the eyes of 
him with whom we have to do. God is light and 
in him is no darkness at all. 

If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me ; 
even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the 
darkness hideth not from thee; but the night 
shineth as the day ; the darkness and the fight 
are both alike to thee. 

The ways of man are before the eyes of the 
Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. 

Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they arc 
not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity 
hid from mine eyes. 

The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth 
all the sons of men. 

The Lord looketh on the heart. The righteous 
God trieth the heart and reins. 

Hell and destruction are before the Lord ; 
how much more then the hearts of the children 
of men. 



OF THE BIBLE. 21 

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him 
actions are weighed. 

I know the things that come into your mind, 
every one of them. 

Can any man hide himself in secret places 
that I shall not see him ? 

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their 
counsel from the Lord. 

The eyes of the Lord are in every place be- 
holding the evil and the good. The Lord search- 
est all hearts, and understandest all the imagina- 
tions of the thoughts. There is no darkness, nor 
^shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity 
may hide themselves. 

The Lord our God is oxfc Lord, 

There is none other God but one. God is one. 

There are three that bare record in heaven, 
the Father, the W ord, and the Holy Ghost : and 
these three are one. 

He that is our God, is the God of salvation; 
and unto God the Lord, belong the issues from 
death. 

All the ends of the earth have seen the salva- 
tion of our God. 

We trust in the living God who is the saviour 
of all men, especially of those that believe. 

O God of our salvation; who art the confidence 
of all the ends of the earth ! 

God is the judge. The Lord shall judge the 
people. 

God hath appointed a day in which he will 
judge the world in righteousness. 

God shall bring every work into judgment, 
with every secret thing, whether it be good or 
whether it be evil, 

Thera is no respect of persons with God* 



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I am the Lord, I change not. 

Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from 
above, and cometh down from the Father of 
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither 
shadow of turning. 

God is not a man that he should lie ; neither 
the son of man, that he should repent. Hath he 
said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, 
and shall he not make it good ? 

He is the living God, and steadfast for ever. 
The word of our God shall stand for ever. 
"Whatsoever Got! doeth, it shall be forever. 

A thousand years in thy sight are but as yes- 
terday when it is past,and as a watch in the night.' 

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, 
and a thousand years as one day. Thou art the 
same, and thy years shall have no end. 

No man hath seen God at any time. There 
shall no man £ee me and live. 

The invisible things of him from the creation 
of the world are clearly seen, being understood 
by the things that are made, even his eternal 
power and Godhead. 

I am the Almighty God. The Lord God Om- 
nipotent reigneth. 

Thine, Lord, is the greatness, and the power, 
and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty. 

Great is our Lord, and of great power. With 
God all things are possible. With God nothing 
shall be impossible. 

He commanded, and they were created. 

By the Word of the Lord were the heavens 
made; and all the host thereof by the breath of 
his mouth. For he spake, and it was done ; he 
commanded, and it stood fast. God said let 
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None can stay his hand, or say unto him, what 
: doest thou ? His hand is stretched out, and who 
shall turn it back ? 

It is he that stretcheth out the heavens as a 
curtain ; which shaketh the earth out of her 
place, and the pillars thereof tremble; which 
commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and seal- 
eth up the stars ; which alone spread eth out the 
heavens, ^.nd treadeth upon the waves of the sea 
which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, 
and the chambers of the south ^ which doeth 
great things past finding out ; yea, and wonders 
without number. 

The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of 
the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is 
weary. 

, Who hath measured the waters in the hollow 
of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, 
' and comprehended the dust of the earth in a 
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, 
and the hilis in a balance ? 

Who hath divided a watercourse for the over- 
flowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of 
thunder ? 

The Lord thundered from heaven. The God 
of glory thundereth. The thunder of his power 
who can understand ? 

Plis lightnings enlightened the world : the 
earth saw, and trembled* The hills melted like 
wax at the presence of the Lord. 

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at 
the presence of God. 

The pillars of heaven tremble and are aston- 
ished at his reproof. 

With God is terrible majesty God ? thou 
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The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and 
in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his 
feet. 

He commandethaud raiseth the stormy wind. 
He makcth the storm a calm. 

Extol him that rideth upon the heavens. Sing 
to him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens. 

He bowed the heavens and came down : and 
darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon 
a cherub and did fly : and he was seen upon the 
wings of the wind. 

His glory covered the heavens, and the earth 
was full of his piaise. And his brightness was 
as the light. Before him went the pestilence, 
and burning coals went forth at his feet. 

He stood and measured the earth : he beheld, 
and drove asunder the nations 5 and the everlast- 
ing mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills 
did bow : his ways are everlasting. 

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction : and 
the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 
Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. The 
mountains saw thee and they trembled : the over- 
flowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered 
his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. The 
Sun and moon stood still in their habitation. 

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 
I am hath sent me unto you. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
end, the first and the last. 

Thou, Lord, shalt endure for ever 5 and thy 
remembrance unto all generations. 

The eternal God is thy refuge, and under* 
neath are the everlasting arms. 

Before the mountains were brought forth, or 
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world. 



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even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art 
God. 

All thy works praise thee, O Lord. Declare 
his marvellous works among all nations. 

The heavens declare the glory of God; and 
the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day 
unto day uttereth speech and night unto night 
sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor 
language where their voice is not heard. 

O the depth of the. riches both of the wisdom 
and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are 
his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! 

Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst 
thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? It is 
high as heaven ; what canst thou do ? deeper 
than hell ; what canst thou know ? 

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him 
out : he is excellent in power, and in judgment, 
and in plenty of justice. 

Shall not his excellency make you afraid ? and 
his dread fall upon you ? 

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name 
in all the earth ! who hast set thy glory above 
the heavens. 

A God of truth. A father of the fatherless? 
and a judge of the widows. The God of patience 
and consolation. The God of peace. The 
great, the mighty God. The living God. The 
invisible God. The incorruptible God. The 
everlasting God. 

As for God his way is perfect. His work is 
perfect. Your father that is in heaven is perfect. 

Bless the Lord your God for ever and ever. 

Bless the Lord, O my soul : and all that is 
within me, bless his holy name. 

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for ever and ever. Blessed be thy glorious name, 
which is exalted above all blessing and praise. 

Holy, holy, holy, is tire Lord of hosts. 

Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanks- 
giving, and honour, and power, and might, be 
unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. 



CHAP. II. 

ATTRIBUTES, LIFE, AND EXAMPLE, OF OUR 
LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is giv- 
en : and the government shall be upon his shoul- 
der : and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting 
Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase 
of his government and peace there shall be no 
end, upon the throne of David and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it, with 
judgment and with justice from henceforth even 
forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
perform this. 

I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 
and between thy seed and her seed : it shall 
bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor 
a lawgiver from between his feel, until Shiloh 
come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the 
people be. 

I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold 
him, but not nigh ; then shall come a Sfar out of 
Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and 
shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all 
the children of Sheth. 

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, aad 



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thy fellows that sit before thee : for they are men 
wondered at : for behold I will bring forth my 
servant the Branch. 

There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of 
Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots ; 
and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, 
fl)e spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spir- 
it of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge 
and of the fear of the Lord: and he shall not 
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove 
after the hearing of his ears : but with righteous- 
ness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with 
equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall 
smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and 
with the breath of his mouth shall he slay the 
wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle 
of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his 
reins. 

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; be- 
cause the Lord hath anointed me to preach good 
tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind 
up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the 
captives, and the opening of the prison to them 
that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year 
of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our 
God ; to comfort all that mourn : to appoint un- 
to them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them 
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the 
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 

The gloiy of the Lord shall be revealed, and 
all flesh shall see it together : for the mouth of 
the Lord hath spoken it. 

Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the 
word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 
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thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be 
ruler in Israel ; whose goings have been of old, 
from everlasting. 

The angel said unto them, fear not : for, be- 
hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which 
shall be to ail people. For unto you is born this 
day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is 
Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto 
you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swad- 
dling clothes lying in a manger. And suddenly 
there was with the angel a multitude of the 
heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory 
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good 
wiV towards men. 

There is one God, and one mediator between 
God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Him hath 
God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince 
and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel ; and 
forgiveness of sins. Neither is there salvation 
in any other : for there is none other name under 
heaven given among men whereby we must be 
saved. 

I am the resurrection and the life. The power 
of God is now made manifest by the appearing 
of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished 
death, and brought life and immortality to light 
through the gospel. 

God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, hut have everlasting life. For 
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn 
the world ; but that the world through him might 
be saved. 

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the 
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Fa- 
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Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away 
the sin of the world. 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word 
was with God, and the Word was God. The 
same was in the beginning with God. All things 
were made by him ; and without Mm was not 
any thing made that was made. In him was life ; 
and the life was the light of men. And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- 
gotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 

The Father hatli delivered us from the power 
of darkness, and hath translated us into the 
kingdom of his dear Son : in whom we have re- 
demption through his blood, even the forgiveness 
of sins : who is the image of the invisible God, 
the firstborn of every creature : for by him were 
all things created, that are in heaven, a*id that 
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they 
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities or 
powers : all things were created by him, and for 
him : and he is before all things, and by him all 
things consist. 

Thou hast created all things, and for" thy 
pleasure they are and were created, 

Christ the power of God, and the wisdom 
of God. 

Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All 
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

My Father doth love me, because I lay down 
my life, that I might take it again. No man 
taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself: 
I have power to lay it down, and I have power 
to take it again. 

God, who at sundry times and in divers man- 
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prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us 
by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all 
things, by whom also he made the worlds ; who 
being the brightness of his glory, and the express 
image of his person, and upholding all things by 
the word of his power, when he had by himself 
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of 
the Majesty on high ; being made so much better 
than the angels, as he hath by inheritance ob- 
tained a more excellent name than they. 

All things are delivered unto me of my Father. 
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all 
things into his hand. 

Lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he 
saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and 
lighting upon him : and lo, a voice from heaven, 
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am 
"well pleased. 

The high priest said unto him, I adjure thee 
by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou 
be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saithunto 
him, Thou hast said : nevertheless I say unto 
you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sit- 
ting on the right hand of power, and coming in 
the clouds of heaven. 

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily. It pleased the Father that in him should 
all fulness dwell. 

The Father dwelleth in me. I and my Father 
are one. I am in the Father, and the Father in 
me. He that hath seen me, hath sten the Father. 
If ye had known me, ye should have known my 
Father also. All things that the Father hath are 
mine. All mine are thine, and thine are mine ; 
and I am glorified in them. 

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Christ Jesus : who being in the form of God, 
thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but 
made himself of no reputation, and took upon 
him the form of a servant, and was made in the 
likeness of men : and being found in fashion as a 
man ; he humbled himself, and became obedient 
unto death, even the death of the cross. Where- 
fore God also hath highly exalted him, and given 
him a name which is above every name : that at 
the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of 
things in heaven, and things in earth, and things 
under the earth ; and that every tongue should 
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of 
God the Father. 

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, 
and fo:* ever. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was,, 
and which is to come, the Almighty. 

Unto which of the angels said he at any time, 
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? 
And again, I will be to him a Father, and he 
shall be to me a Son ? And again, when he bring- 
eth in the first begotten into the world, he saith ; 
And let all the angels of God worship him. And 
of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels 
spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But 
unto the Son, he saith, Thy throne, O God, is 
for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness 
is the gceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved 
righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore 
God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness 
above thy fellows. And thou, Lord, in the be- 
ginning hast laid the foundation of the earth : 
and the heavens are the work of thine hands. 
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all shall wax old as doth a garment ; and as a 
vesture shalt thou fold them, up, and they shall 
be changed : but thou art the same, and thy 
years shall not fail. 

No man hath seen God at any time; the only 
begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Fa- 
ther, he hath declared him. 

Neither knoweth any man the Father save the 
Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal 
him. 

The woman went her way into the city, and 
$aith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me 
all things that ever I did ; is not this the Christ ? 

I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts. 

"Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that 
died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even 
at the right hand of God, who also maketh inter- 
cession for us. 

The Father judgeth no man ; but hath commit- 
ted all judgment to the Son ; that all men should 
honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. 

My kingdom is not of this world. 

rl is parents went to Jerusalem every year at 
the feast of the passover. And when he was 
twelve years old; they went up to Jerusalem af- 
ter tjie custom of the feast. And when they had 
fulfilled the clays, as they returned, the child Je- 
sus tarried behind in Jerusalem ; and Joseph and 
his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing 
him to have been in the company, went a day's 
journey ; and they sought him among their kins- 
folk and acquaintance. And when they found 
him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, 
peeking him. And it came to pass, that after 
three days they found him in the temple, sitting 
to the midst of the doctors both hearing them, 



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and asking them questions. And all that heard 
him were astonished at his und. 
answers. And when they saw him, they were 
amazed : and his mother said unto him, Son, why 
hast thou thus dealt with us ? Behold thy j 
and I have sought thee sorrowing. Ami he said 
unto them, liow is it that ye sought me r wist ye 
not that I must be about my Father's business ? 

My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, 
and to finish his work. 

I seek not mine own will, but the will of the 
Father which hath sent me. 

When John had heard in the prison the works 
of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said 
unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do 
we look for another ? Jesus answered and said 
unto them, Go and shew John again those things 
which ye do hear and see: the blind receive 
their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are 
cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised 
up, and the poor have the gospel preached to 
them. 

The officers answered, never man spake like 
this man. 

The word which God sent unto the children 
of Israel, preaching by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord 
of all ;) that word, I say, ye know, which was 
published throughout all Judea, and began from 
Galilee, after the baptism which John preached ; 
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the 
Holy Ghost, and with power ; who went about 
doing good, and healing all that were oppressed 
of the devil : for God was with him. 

Tins man because he continueth ever hath an 
unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able 
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto 



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God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make inter- 
cession for them. For such an high priest be- 
came us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, sepa- 
rate from sinners, and made higher than the 
heavens. 

Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in 
heart. 

Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, 
that we should follow his steps ; who did no sin, 
neither was guile found in his mouth : who when 
he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suf- 
fered, be threatened not ; but committed himself 
to him that judgeth righteously. 

He kneeled down and prayed, saying, Father, 
if thou be willing, remove this cup I'rom me : ne- 
vertheless, not my will but thine be done. And 
there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, 
strengthening him. And being in an agnoy, he 
prayed more earnestly : and his sweat was as it 
were great drops of blood falling down to the 
ground. 

In the days of his flesh, when he had offered 
up prayers and supplications with strong crying 
and tears unto him that was able to save him from 
death, and was heard in that he feared : though 
he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the 
things which he suffered ; and being made per- 
fect, he became the author of eternal salvation 
unto all them that obey him. 

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he 
became poor, that ye through his poverty might 
be rich. 

The Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 

He is despised and rejected of men ; a man of 
sorrows and acquainted with grief : and we hid 



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as it were our faces from him : lie was despised, 
and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne 
our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we did 
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflict- 
ed. But he was wounded for our transgressions, 
he was bruised for our iniquities ; the chastise- 
ment of our peace was upon him : and with his 
stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have 
gone astray ; we have turned every one to his 
own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him the 
iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he 
was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth : he is 
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep 
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not 
his mouth. 

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all 
things into his hands, and that he was come from 
God, and went to (tod ; he riseth from supper, 
and laid aside his garments ; and took a towel 
and girded himself. After that he poureth water 
in f o a bason, and began to wash the disciples' 
feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith 
he was girded. After he had washed their feet, 
and had taken his garments, and was set down 
again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have 
done to you ? Ye call me Master, and Lord: and 
ye say well ; for so I am. If I then your Lord 
and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought 
to wash one another's feet. For I have given you 
an example, that ye should do as I have done to 
you. 

They brought young children to him, that he 
should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked 
those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it 
he was much displeased, and said unto them, 
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forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom ot 
God. Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall 
not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, 
he shall not enter therein. And he took them 
up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and 
blessed them. 

When Mary was come where Jesus was, and 
saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto 
him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother 
had not died. When Jesus therefore saw her 
weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came 
with her, he groaned in the spirit and was trou- 
bled, and said where have ye laid him ? They 
said unto him, Lord come and see. Jesus wept. 

Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, 
Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that 
thy Son may glorify thee: as thou hast given 
him power over all flesh, that he should give 
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 
And this is life eternal that they might know 
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom 
thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the 
<sarth : I have finished the work which thou gav- 
est me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou 
me with thine own self, with the glory which I 
iiad with thee before the world was. 

When they were eome to the place which is 
called Calvary, there they crucified him and the 
malefactors. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive 
them ; for they know not what they do. 

He was taken from prison and from judgment 
and who shall declare his generation ? for he 
was cut 'off out of the land of the living : for the 
transgression of my people was he stricken. And 
he made his grave with the wicked, and with the 
rich in his death ; because he had done no vio- 



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, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet 
it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put 
him to grief. He was numbered with the trans- 
gressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made 
intercession for the transgressors. 

Ye men of Israel, hear these words 5 Jesus of 
Nazareth a man approved of God among you by 
miracles, and wonders, and signs which God did 
by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also 
know ; him being delivered by the determinate 
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, 
and by wicked hands have crucified and slain; 
whom God hath raised up, having loosed the 
pains of death : because it was not possible that 
he should be holden of it. 

If Christ be preached that he rose from the 
dead, how say some among you that there is no 
resurrection of the dead ? But if there be no 
resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen : 
and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching 
vain, and your faith is also vain. 

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we 
are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ 
risen from the dead, and become the first fruits 
of them that slept. 

We see Jesus, who was made a little lower 
than the angels for the suffering of death, crown- 
ed with glory and honour ; that he by the grace 
of God should taste death for every man. 

It became him, for whom are all things, and 
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons 
unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation 
perfect through sufferings. 

When he ascended up on high, he led cap- 
tivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. He 
that descended is the same also that ascended 
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up far above all heavens, that he might fill all 
things. 

Without controversy great is the mystery of 
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justi- 
fied in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto 
the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received 
up into glory. 

Beside me there is no God, Christ is over all, 
God blessed forever. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the blessed and only 
Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords; 
who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto; whom no man 
hath seen, or can see : to whom be honour and 
power everlasting. 

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which 
was, and is, and is to come. 

Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive 
power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength*- 
and honour, and glory, and blessing. 

To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory 
and majesty, dominion and power, both now and 
eyer. Amen, 



CHAP. III. 

ATTRIBUTES OR OFFICES OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

Jesus said unto him, if a man love me, he will 
keep my words : and my Father will love him, 
and we will come unto him, and make our abode 
with him. He that loveth me not, keepeth not 
my sayings ; and the word which ye hear is not 
mine, but the Father's which sent me. These 
tilings have I spoken unto you, being yet present 
with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy 



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Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things, and bring all thii 
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto 
you. 

When the Comforter is come, whom I will send 
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, 
which proceedeth from the Father, he shali testify 
of me : and ye also shall bear witness, because je 
have been with me from the beginning. 

I tell you the truth ; it is expedient for you 
that i go away : for if I go not away, the Com- 
forter will not come unto you ; but if I depart, I 
will send him unto you. And when he is come, 
he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteous- 
ness, and of judgment: of sin, because they be- 
lieve not in me ; of righteousness, because I go to 
my Father, and ye see me no more ; of judgment, 
because the prince of this world is judged. I have 
yet many things to say unto you, bu t ye ca n not bear 
them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth 
is come, he will guide you into all truth : for he 
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he 
shall hear, that shali he speak : and he will shew 
you things to come, lie shall glorify me : for he 
shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 
All things that the Father hath are mine : there- 
fore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall 
shew it unto you. 

The Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we 
know not what we should pray for as we ought : 
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us 
with groanings which cannot be uttered. And 
he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the 
mind of the Spirit, because he maketh interces* 
sion for the saints according to the will of God. 

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heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back 
part of the price of the land ? Whilst it remained, 
was it not thine own ? and after it was sold, was 
it not in thine own power ? why hast thou con- 
ceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not 
lied unto men but unto God. 

It was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, 
that he should not see death before he had seen 
the Lord's Christ. 

What ? know ye not that your body is the 
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which 
ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? 

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great sal- 
vation | which at the first began to be spoken by the 
Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that 
heard him; God also bearing them witness, both 
with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, 
and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his will. 

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have 
entered into the heart of man, the things which , 
God hath prepared for them that love him, But 
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit : 
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep 
things of God. For what man knoweth the things 
of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him ? 
even so the things of God knoweth no man but 
the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not 
the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of 
God ; that we might know the things which are 
freely given to us of God : which things also we 
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom 
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth. 

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- 
guttering, gentleness, faith, goodness, meekness, 
temperance. 

Blessed be God even the God of all comfort, 



OF THE BIBLE. 4} 

CHAP. IV. 

BAPTISM. 

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism. 

I indeed baptize you with water unto repent- 
ance : but he that cometh after me is mightier 
than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear ; he 
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with 
fire. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan 
unto John, to be baptized of him. But John for- 
bade him, saying, Hiave need to be baptized of 
thee, and comest thou to me ? And Jesus, an- 
swering, said unto him, suffer it to be so now : for 
thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness,. 
Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was 
baptized, went up straightway out of the water. 

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach 
the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 
And then went out to him all the land of Judea. 
and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of 
him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. 

All the people that heard him, and the publi- 
cans, justified God, being baptized with the bap- 
tism of John. 

Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, All 
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 
Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing 
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son * 
und of the Holy Ghost. 

Jesus himself baptized not., but his disciples. 

Paul said unto them, Unto what then were ye 
baptized ? And they said, unto John's baptism. 
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the 
haptism of repentance, saying unto the people* 
that thev should believe on him which shoultj 
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42 COMPENDIUM 

come after him, that is, on Jesus Christ. When 
they heard this, they were baptized in the name 
of the Lord Jesus. 

Many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed, 
and were baptized. 

Peter answered, Can any man forbid water, that 
these should not be baptized, which have received 
the Holy Ghost as well as we ? And he command- 
ed them to be baptized in the name of tbe Lord. 

When they believed Philip preaching the 
things concerning the kingdom of God, and the 
name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both 
jnen and women. 

Philip preached unto him Jesus. And as they 
went on their way, they came unto a certain 
water : and the eunuch said, See, here is water ; 
what doth hinder me to be baptized ? And Philip 
said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou 
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe 
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And they 
went down both into the water, both Philip and 
the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when 
they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of 
the Lord caught away Philip. 

Lydia attended unto the things which were 
spoken of Paul. And she was baptized, and her 
household. 

The keeper of the prison fell down before Paul 
and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, 
what must I do to be saved ? And they said, Be- 
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be 
saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him 
the word of the Lord, and to ail that were in his 
house. And he was baptized, he and all his, 
straightway. And lie rejoiced, believing in God 
with all his house. 



OF THE BIBLE. 43 

By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, 
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be 
bond or free; and have been all made to drink 
into one spirit. 

As many of you as have been baptized into 
Christ, have put on Christ. 

Know ye not that so many of us as were bap-* 
tized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his 
death ? Therefore we are buried with him by bap- 
tism into death ; that, like as Christ was raised 
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even 
so we also should walk in newness of life. 

Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy 
sins, calling on the name of the Lord. 

Repent, and be baptized every one of you in 
the name of Jesus Christ,for the remission of sins ? 
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost 



CITAr. V. 

BENEFICENCE. 

Do good. He that doeth good is of God. 

As we have opportunity, let us do good unto 
all men, especially unto them who are of the 
household of faith. 

Charge them that are rich in this world, that 
they do good, that they be rich in good works, 
ready to distribute, willing to communicate ; 
laying up in store for themselves a good founda- 
tion against the time to come, that they may lay 
hold on eternal life. 

M hoso hath this world's good, and seeth his 
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of 
compassion from him. how dwelleth the love of 
Cad in him ? My little children, let us not love 



44 COMPENDIUM 

in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and in 
truth. 

He which soweth sparingly, shall reap also 
sparingly ; and he which soweth bountifully, shall 
reap also bountifully. 

Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shalt 
find it after many days. 

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; 
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, 
but it tendeth to poverty. 

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, 
when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say 
not unto thy neighbour, go and come again and 
to-morrow 1 will give ; when thou hast it by thee. 

He that hath two coats, let him impart to him 
that hath none 5 arid he that hath meat, let him 
do likewise, 

He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity. 

Take heed that ye do not your alms before 
men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no 
reward of your Father which is in heaven. There- 
fore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a 
trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the 
synagogues, and in the streets, that they may 
have glory of mem Verily, I say unto you they 
have their reward. But when thou doest alms, 
let not thy left hand know what thy right hand 
doeth : that thine alms may be in secret : and 
thy father which seeth in secret, himself shall re- 
ward thee openly. 

God is not unrighteous to forget your work of 
labour and love, which ye have shewed towards 
his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints. 

Every man according as he purposeth in his 
heart, se let him give, not grudgingly, or of ne 
it v ; for (iotl lovetU a cheerful giver. 



OF THE BIBLE, 45 

If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted 
according to that a man hath. 

Jesus sat over against the treasury, and be- 
held how the people cast money into the treas^ 
ury : and many that were rich cast in much. 
And there came a certain poor widow, and 
she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 
And he called unto him his disciples, and saith 
unte them, Verily I say unto you, That this 
poor widow hath cast more in than all they 
which have cast into the treasury : for all they 
did cast in of their abundance; but she of her 
want did cast in all that she had, even all her 
living. 

Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of 
these little ones, a cup of cold water only, in the 
name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, He 
shall in no wise lose his reward. 

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; 
and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : 
because I delivered the poor that cried, and the 
fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 
The blessing of him that was ready to perish 
came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart 
to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it 
clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a 
diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was 
I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and 
the cause which I knew not, I searched out. And 
I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the 
spoil out of his teeth. 

The righteous hath dispersed, he hath given to 
the poor. He is ever merciful and lendeth 5 and 
his seed is blessed. 

A good man sheweth favour and lendeth. Do 
good and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and. 



45 COMPENDIUM 

your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the 
children of the Highest. 

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again : 
but the righteous sheweth mercy and giveth. 

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto 
the liord : and that which he hath given will he 
pay him again. 

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack ; bur 
he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. 

If tky brother be waxen poor, and fallen in 
decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him. 

Blessed is he that considereth the poor : the Lord 
shall deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will 
preserve him, and keep him alive : and he shall be 
blessed upon the earth : and thou wilt not deliver 
him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will 
strengthen him upon the bed of languishing : thou 
wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he 
that watereth shall be watered also himself. 

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed : 
for he giveth of his bread to the poor. 

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart 
shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him : 
because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall 
bless thee in all thy works. 

It is he that giveth thee power to get wealth. 
The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich. The 
poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore 
I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine 
hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to 
thy needy, in thy land. 

Ye have the poor with you always; and when- 
soever ye will, ye may do them good. 

Give alms of such tilings as ye have. Give and 
H shall be given unto you. 



OF THE BIBLE. 47 

Give to him that asketh thee ; and from him 
that would borrow of thee, turn not thou away. 

To do good and to communicate, forget not; 
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how 
he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 

Jesus said unto him, yet lackest thou one thing ; 
sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the 
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and 
come, follow me. 

CHAP. VL 

BENEVOLENCE. 

Look not every man on his own things, but 
every man also on the things of others. 

Seek good. He that diligently seeketh good 
procureth favour. % 

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep 
with them that weep. 

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound 
with them ; and them which suffer adversity, as 
being yourselves also in the body. 

Be pitiful. Shew mercy and compassions. 

Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted ; 
forbearing one another, and forgiving one an- 
other. 

Comfort one another. Pray for one another. 
Let us love one another. 

Being affectionately desirous of you, we were 
willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel 
of God only, but also our own souls, because ye 
were dear unto us. 

Love the good. Love your enemies. Ever 
follow that which is good to all men. 



48 COMPENDIUM 

CHAP. VII. 

CHARITY. 

Above all tilings put on charity, which is the 
bond of perfectn ess. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and 
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as 
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And 
though 1 have the gift of prophecy, and under- 
stand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and 
though I have all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, 1 am nothing. And though I bestow 
all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give 
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it 
profiteth me nothing. 

Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity 
envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself; is not 
puffed up, and doth not behave itself unseemly, 
seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, think- 
eth no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 
in the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all 
things, hopeth all things. Charity never faileth. 
And now abideth faith, hope, charity; these 
three ; but the greatest of these is charity. 

Follow after charity. Let all your things be 
done with charity. Above all things have fervent 
chanty among yourselves : for charity shall cover 
the multitude of sins. 

The end of the commandment is charity out of 
a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of 
faith unfeigned. 

Judge not according to appearance ; but judge 
righteous judgment. Judge nothing before the 
time. 

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with, 



OF THE BIBLE, 49 

what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged : and 
with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured 
to you again. 

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy 
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that 
is in thine own eye ? Or how wilt thou say to thy 
brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine 
eve; and behold a beam is in thine own ever 
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine 
own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast 
out the mote out of thy brothers eye, 

Jesus said ilnto them, He that is without sin 
among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 

Thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou 
art that judgest : for wherein thou judgest another, 
thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest 
doest the same things. And thinkest thou this, 
O man, that judgest them which do such things r 
and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the 
judgment ot God ? 

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: con- 
demn not, and ye shall not be condemned. 

CHAP. VIIL 

CHASTITY. 

Keep thyself pure. Blessed are the pure in 
heart : for they shall see God. 

Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against 
the soul. 

Flee youthful lusts. Flee fornication. This 
is the will of God, even your sanctification, that 
ye should abstain from fornication. 

I wrote unto you an epistle not to 'keep com- 
pany with fornicators. 
5 



SO COMPENDIUM 

Whoso committeth adultery with a woman? 
lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroy - 
eth his own soul. A wound and dishonour shall 
lie get ; and his reproach shall not be wiped 
away. 

Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after 
her, hath already committed adultery with her in 
his heart. 

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding 
shall keep thee : to deliver thee from the strange 
woman, even from the stranger which flatereth. 
with her words ; which forsaketh the guide of her 
youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths 
unto the dead : none that go unto her, return 
again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. 
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not 
astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many 
wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain 
by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down 
to the chambers of death. 

The commandment is a lamp ; and the law is 
light ; and reproofs of instruction are the way of 
life : to keep thee from the evil woman, from the 
flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust 
not after her beauty in thine heart. Her feet go 
down to death ; her steps take hold on hell. 

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. 
By means of a strange woman, a man is brought 
to a piece of bread. 

Rejoice with the wife of thy youth ; and be thou 
ravished always with her love. And why wilt 
thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, 
and embrace the bosom of a stranger. 

Neither fornicators nor adulterers shall inherit 
the kingdom of God. 



OF THE BIBLE. ^ 

CHAP. IX. 

COMMANDMENTS. 

God spake all these words, saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt, out of 1he house of bondage. Thou 
shalt have no other Gods before me. 

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven im- 
age, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven 
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is 
in the water under the earth ; thou shalt not bow 
down thyself to them, nor serve them ; for 1 the 
Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the ini- 
quity of the fathers upon the children unto the 
third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; 
and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that 
love me, and keep my commandments. 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy 
God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him 
guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 

Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy. Six 
days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the 
seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in 
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, 
nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid- 
servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is 
within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made 
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, 
and rested the seventh day ; wherefore the Lord 
blessed the sabbath -day, and hallowed it. 

Honour thy father and thy mother ;. that thy 
days may be long upon the land which the Lord 
ihy God giveth thee. 

Thou shalt not kill. 

Thou shait not commit adultery. 



I COMPENDIUM 

Thou shalt not steal. 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
neighbour. 

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, 
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor 
his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his 
ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neigh 
bour's. 



CHAP. X. 

CONTENTMENT. 

Be content. Let not your heart be troubled. 

Having food and raiment let us be therewith* 
content. 

Godliness with contentment is great gain. 

I have learned in whatsoever state I am, there- 
with to be content. I am instructed both to be 
full, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to suf- 
fer n^ed. 

Be content with such things as ye have. 

A good man shall be satisfied from himself. 

Wherefore doth a living man complain ? 

These are murmurers, complainers, walking 
after their own lusts. 

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also mur- 
mured, and were destroyed. 

Do all things without murmurings. 



CHAP. XI. 

COUNSEL. 

With the well-advised is wisdom* We took 
sweet counsel together. 



OF THE BIBLE. 53 

Hear counsel and receive instruction. He that 
Tiearkeneth unto counsel is wise. 

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart : so 
doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty 
counsel. 

The counsel of the wicked is deceit. Blessed 
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the 
ungodly. 

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be 
yet wiser. 

He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his own 
soul. 

How have I hated instruction, and my heart 
despised reproof; and have not obeyed the voice 
of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them 
that instructed me ! 

If any man obey not our word, count him not 
as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 

Exhort one another daily, while it is called to 
day ; lest any of you be hardened through the 
deceitfulness of sin; 

He thatheareth reproof getteth understanding. 

Let the righteous reprove me ; it shall be an 
excellent oil. 

He that regardcth reproof is prudent. 

He that refuseth reproof erreth, He that 
hateth reproof is brutish. 

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him. 
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee. 

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works 
ol darkness, but rather reprove them. 

He that being often reproved hardeneth his 
neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that 
Without remedy. 

Am 1 become your enemy, because I tell you 
the U\ 



54 COMPENDIUM 

Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 

He that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find 
more favour than he that flattereth with his 
tongue. 

Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a 
father ; and the younger men as brethren. 

A scorner heareth not rebuke. 

Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others 
also may fean 



CHAP. XII. 

COVETOUSNESS. 

Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy 
neighbour's. 

Covetousness, let it not be once named among 
you. 

Take heed and beware of covetousness : for a 
man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the 
things which he possesseth. 

If riches increase, set notyourheartupon them. 

Let your conversation be without covetous- 
ness. He that hateth covetousness shall prolong 
his days. 

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with 
silver; nor he that loveth abundance with in- 
crease. 

The love of money is the root of all evil : 
which while some coveted after, they have erred 
from the faith, and pierced themselves through 
with many sorrows. 

When goods increase, they are increased that 
eat them ; and what good is there to the owners 
thereof, saving the beholding thereof with tWtv 
eves. 



OF THE BIBLE. 55 

I know that there is no good in them, but for 
a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 

There is that maketh himself rich, jet hath 
nothing : There is that maketh himself poor, yet 
hath great riches. 

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. A 
little that a righteous man hath is better than the 
riches of many wicked. 

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than 
great treasure and trouble therewith. 

He that withhoideth corn, the people shall 
curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head 
or him that seileth it. 

Woe unto them that join house to house, that 
lay field to field, till there be no place, that they 
may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. 

Labour not to be rich. A faithful man shall 
abound with blessings : but lie that maketh haste 
to be rich shall not be innocent. 

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who 
shall gather them. 

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own 
house. Woe unto him that coveteth an evil 
covetousness tahis house. 

There is one alone, and there is not a second : 
yea, he hath neither child nor brother ; yet is 
there no end of all his labour : neither is his eye 
satisfied with riches ; neither saith he for whom 
do I labour, and bereave my soul of good ? This 
is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. 

They that would be rich fall into temptation 
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful 
lusts, which drown men in destruction and pei> 
dition. 

Riches are not for ever. Wilt thou set thine* 
r es upon that which rs not I for riches certainly 



56 COMPENDIUM 

make themselves wings ; they fly away as an 
eagle toward heaven. 

We brought nothing into this world, and it is 
certain we can carry nothing out. 

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and 
as an high wall in his own conceit. 

1 have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or 
apparel. 

Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me 
wit! i food convenient for me : lest I be full and 
deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I. 
be poor and steal , and take the name of my .God 
in vain. 

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and 
not to covetousness. ,1-^ 

The wicked blesseth the covetous, wnom the"^ 
Lord abhorreth. 

They that trust in their wealth, and boast 
themselves in the multitude of their riches; none 
of them can by any means redeem his brother, 
nor give to God a ransom for him. 

The fool and the brutish person peri>b, and 
leave their wealth to others. Their inward 
thought is, that their houses shall continue for- 
ever, and their dwelling places to ail generations ; 
they call their lands after their own names. 

Jesus spake a parable unto them, saying: 
The ground of a certain rich man brought forth 
plentifully : and he thought within himself, say* 
ing, What shall I do, because 1 have no room 
where to bestow my fruits ? And he said, This 
will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build 
greater: and there will I bestow ail my fruits 
and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, 
thou hast much goods laid up for many years : 
take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. Jiut 



OF THE BIBLE. « 

God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy 
soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall 
those things be which thou hast provided. So is 
he that laveth up treasure for himself, and is not 
rich towards God. 

Laj not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, 
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where 
thieves break tli rough and steal : but lay up for 
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither 
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where theives 
do not break through nor steal. For where your 
treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

No covetous person hath any inheritance in 
the kingdom of Christ and of God. 

How hard is it for those that trust in riches to 
enter into the kingdom of God ! With men it is 
impossible, but not with God : for with God all 
things are possible. 



CHAP. XIII. 

CREATION. 

In the beginning God created the heaven and 
the earth .And the earth was without form, and 
void ; and darkness was upon the face of the 
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the 
face of the waters. 

And God said, Let there be light : and there 
was light. And God saw the light, that it was 
good : and God divided the light from the dark- 
ness. And God called the light Day, and the 
darkness he called Night. And the evening 
and the mtfrning were the first day. 

And God said, Let there be a firmament in 
the midst of the waters, and let it divide the wa* 



5S COMPENDIUM 

ters from the waters. And God made the firma- 
ment, and divided the waters which were under 
the firmament, from the waters which were above 
the firmament : and it was so. And God called 
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and 
the morning were the second day. 

And God said, Let the waters under the hea- 
ven be gathered together unto one place, and let 
the dry land appear : and it was so. And God 
called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering 
together of the waters called he Seas : and God 
saw that it was good. And God said. Let the 
earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, 
and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, 
whose seed is in itself upon the earth: and it 
was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and 
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree 
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his 
kind : and God saw that it was good. And the 
evening and the morning were the third day. 

And God said, Let there be lights in the fir- 
mament of the heaven, -to divide the day from the 
night \ and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 
and for days, and years : and let them be for 
lights in the firmament of the heaven to give 
light upon the earth : and it was so. And God 
made two great lights ; the greater to rule the 
day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he 
made the stars also. And God set them in the 
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the 
earth, and to rule over the day and over the 
night, and to divide the light from the darkness : 
and God saw that it was good. And the evening 
and the morning were the fourth day. 

And God said, Let the waters bring forth 
abundantly the moving creature that hath Jife ? 



OF THE BIBLE. 59 

and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open 
firmament of heaven. And God created great 
whales, and every living creature that moveth, 
which the waters brought forth abundantly after 
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : 
and God saw that it was good. And God blessed 
them, saying, He fruitful and .multiply, and fill 
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in 
the earth. And the evening and the morning 
were the fifth day. J 

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creep- 
ing tiling, and beast of the earth after his kind : 
and it was so. And God made the beast of the 
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, 
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth 
after his kind : and God saw that it was good. 

And God said, Let us make man in our image, 
after our likeness ; and let them have dominion 
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the 
air, and .over the cattle, and over all the earth, 
and over every creeping thing that creepeth 
upon the earth. So God created man in his own 
image, in the image of God created he him ; male 
and female created he them. And God blessed 
them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and 
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it : 
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and 
over the fowl of the air, and over every living- 
thing that moveth upon the earth. 

And God said, Behold [ have given you every 
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of ail 
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the 
fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be 
for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and 
tn every fowl of the air, and to every thing that 



60 COMPENDIUM 

eieepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I 
have given every green herb for meat : and it 
was so. And God saw every thing that he had 
made, and behold it was very good. And the 
evening and the morning were the sixth day. 

Th T, s the heavens and the earth were finished, 
and all the host of them. 

Through faith we understand that the worlds 
were framed by the word of God ; so that things 
which are seen, were not made of things which 
do appear. 



CHAP. XIV. 

CRUCIFIXION, DEATH, AND BUftlAL, OF OUE 
LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And 
the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put 
it on his head, and they put on him a purp-e 
robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews ! and 
they smote him with their hands. Pilate there- 
fore went forth again, and saith unto them, 
Behold I bring him forth to you, that ye may 
know that I find no fault in him. Then came 
Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and 
the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto thei% 
Behold the man I When the chief priests there- 
fore and officers saw him, they cried out, sayings 
Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto i hem* 
Take ye him. and crucify him : fori find no fault 
in him. The Jews answered him, We have a 
law, and by our law he ought to die, because he 
made himself the Son of God. 

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he 
was the more afraid : and went again into the 



OF THE BIBLE, 61 

judgment-hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art 
thou ? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then 
saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto 
me ? Know est thou not that I have power to 
crucify thee, and have power to release thee? 
Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at 
all against me, except it were given thee from 
above : therefore he that delivered me Unto thee 
hath the greater sin* And from thenceforth 
Pilate sought to release him : but the Jews cried 
out, saving, if thou let this man go, thou art not 
Cesar's friend : whosoever maketh himself a 
king, speaketh against Cesar, 

When Pilate, therefore, heard that saying, he 
brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judg- 
ment-seat, in a place that is called the Pavement, 
but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the 
preparation of the passover, and about the sixth 
hour : and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your 
King ! But they cried out, Away with him, away 
with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, 
Shall I crucify your King ? The chief priests 
answered, We have no king but Cesar. Then 
delivered he him, therefore, unto them to be cru- 
cified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. 
And he bearing his cross, went forth into a place 
called the place of a skull, which is called in the 
Hebrew, Golgotha ; where they crucified hirn, 
and two others with him, on either side one, and 
Jesus in the midst. 

And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the 
cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZA- 
RETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Thi* 
title then read many of the Jews ; for the place 
where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city : 
and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek* anfl 
6 



62 COMPENDIUM 

Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews 
to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews ; but 
that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate an- 
swered, What I have written, I have written. 

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified 
Je sus, took his garments, and made four parts, to* 
every soldier a part, and also his coat : now the 
coat was without seam, woven from the top 
throughout. They said therefore among them- 
selves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, 
whose it shall be : that the scripture might be 
fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment 
among them, and for my vesture they did cast 
lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. 

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mo- 
ther and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of 
Cieophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus 
therefore saw his mother, and the disciple stand- 1 * 
ing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother. 
Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the 
disciple, Behold thy mother ! And from that 
hour that disciple took her unto his own home. 

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were 
now accomplished, that the scripture might be 
fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a 
vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge 
with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it 
to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had re- 
ceived the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and 
he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. 

And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in 
twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth 
did quake, and the rocks rent. And the graves 
were opened ; aud many bodies of the saints 
which slept uose, and came out of the graves 
after his resurrection, and .went into the holy 



OF THK BIBLE. 63 

city, and appeared unto many. Now when the 
centurion, and they that were with him watching 
Jesus, saw t\\e earthquake, and those things that 
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly 
this was the Son of God. 

The Jews because it was the preparation, that 
the bodies should not remain upon the cross on 
the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath -day was an 
high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might 
be broken, and that they might be taken away. 
Then came the soidiers and brake the legs of 
the first, and of the other which was crucified 
with him. But when they came to Jesus, and 
saw that he was dead already, they brake not 
his legs : But one of the soldiers with a spear 
pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout 
blood and water. 

i And he that saw it, bare record, and his record 
is true ; and he knoweth that he saith true, that 
ye might believe. For these things were done, 
that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of 
him shall not be broken. And again another 
scripture saith, They shall look <m him whom 
they pierced. 

When the even was come, there came a rich 
man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also him- 
self was Jesus' disciple : he went to Pilate, and 
begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate com- 
manded the body to be delivered. And when 
Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a 
clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new 
tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock : and 
he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepul- 
chre, and departed. And there was Mary Mag- 
dalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against 
the sepulchre. 



64 COMPENDIUM 

Now the next day that followed the day of the 
preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came 
together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember 
that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, 
After three days I will rise again. Command, 
therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure until 
the third day, lest his disciples come by night, 
and steal him away, and say unto the people, lie 
is risen from the dead $ so the last error shall be 
worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye 
have a watch $ go your way, make it as sure as 
ye can. So they went and made the sepulchre 
sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. 



CHAP. XV. 

BEPRAVITY OF MAN. ^^ 

The heart is deceitful above all things, anc^ 
desperately wicked : who can know it ? 

The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. The 
Imagination of man 5 s heart is evil from his youth. 

Because sentence against an evil work is not 
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons * 
of men is fully set in them to do evil. 

There is no man that sinneth not. 

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth 
good, and sinneth not. 

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I 
am pure from sin ? 

What is man that he should be clean, and he 
which is born of a woman, that he should be 
righteous ? Behold he putteth no trust in his 
saints $ yea, the heavens are not clean in hi* 
sight. How much more abominable and filthy i$ 
5man ? which drinketh iniquity like water ? 



OF THE BIBLE. 65 

They are corrupt, they have clone abominable 
works, there is none thatdoeth good. 

What is man that thou art mindful of him ? 
and the son of man that thou visitest him ? 

AVe were by nature children of wrath, even as 
others. You were dead in trespasses and sins. 

I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh) dwell- 
cth no good thing. 

wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver 
me from the body of this death ? 

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity : and in sin 
did my mother conceive me. 

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they 
go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the 

Nliildren of men, to see if there were any that did 
nderstand, and seek God. They are all gone 
aside, they are altogether become filthy : there 
is none that doeth good, no, not one. 

There is none righteous, no, not one. Their 
throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues 
they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is 
under their lips : whose mouth is full of cursing 
and bitterness : their feet are swift to shed blood : 
destruction and misery are in their ways : and 
the way of peace have they not known : there is 
no fear of God before their eyes. 

Your iniquities have separated between you 
and your God, and your sins have hid his face 
from you, that he will not hear. For your hanch; 
are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iirr? 
quity ; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue 
hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for 
justice, nor any pleadeth for truth : they trust 
in vanity, and speak lies ; they conceive mis- 
chief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch 



£6 COMPENDIUM 

cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web : he 
that eateth of their eggs die,th, and that which is 
crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs 
shall not become garments, neither shall they 
cover themselves with their works : their works 
are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is 
in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they 
make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts 
are thoughts of iniquity ; wasting and destruc- 
tion are in their paths. The way of peace they 
know not ; and there is no judgment in their 
goings : they have made them crooked paths : 
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 

Pride compasseth them about as a chain ; vio- 
lence covereth them as a garment. 

They sleep not, except they have done mis M 
chief; and their sleep is taken away, unless thej^ 
cause some to fall. 

They gather themselves together against the 
sjou! of the righteous, and condemn the innocent 
Mood. 

He sltteth in the lurking places of the villages ; 
in the secret places doth he murder the innocento 

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and 
fraud : under his tongue is mischief and vanity 

They abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 

They set their mouth against the heavens. 

They say unto God, depart from us ; for we 
jtlesire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is 

tjj Almighty that we should serve him ? and 
tat profit "should we have, if we pray unto 
him ? 

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten. 

The fool hath si ad in his heart, there is no God. 

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be 

horribly afraid, be ye very desolate saith the 



OF THE BIBLE. Or 

Lord. For my people have committed two evils ; 
they have forsaken me, the fountain of living 
waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken 
cisterns, that can hold no water. 

They set their heart on their iniquity. 
We will walk after our own devices, and we 
will every one do the imagination of his evil 
heart. 

They made their hearts as an adamant stone 9 
lest they should hear the law. 

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, 
and with the point of a diamond. 

The whole world lieth in wickedness. 
This is the condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men loved darkness rather 
^han light, because their deeds were evil. 
,: | Ye are of your Father the devil, and the lusts 
of your Father ye will do. 

We have made a covenant with death, and 
with hell are we at agreement ; when the over- 
flowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not 
come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, 
and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. 

The good man is perished out of the earth : and 
there is none upright among men : they all lie 
'm wait for blood ; they hunt every man his bro- 
liher with a net That they may do evil with 
both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the 
judge asketh for a reward ; and the great man, 
he uttereth his mischievous desire : so they wrapt 
it up. The best of them is a brier : the imj# 
upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. 

These, as natural brute beasts, made to be 
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that 
they understand not ; and shall utterly perish in* 
|lieif own corruption : and shall receive the re- 



68 COMPENDIUM 

ward of unrighteousness, as they that cpunt it 
pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots tney are 
and blemishes, sporting themselves with their 
own dcceivings while they feast with you; hav- 
ing eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease 
from sin : beguiling unstable souls: an heart 
they have exercised with covetous practices ; 
cursed children : which have forsaken the right 
way, and are gone astray. These are wells with- 
out water, clouds that are carried with a tem- 
pest ; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved 
fur ever. For when they speak great swelling 
words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of 
the flesh, through much wantonness, those that 
were clean escaped from them who live in error. 
"While they promise them liberty, they thern^ 
selves are servants of corruption. 

When they knew God, they glorified him not 
.as God, neither were thankful ; but became vain 
in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was 
darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they 
became fools, who changed the truth of God into a 
lie, and worshipped &nd served the creature more 
than the Creator: being tilled with all unright- 
eousness, fornication, wickedness, covetetous- , 
ness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate,^ 
deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haterjflB 
of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of 
evil things, disobedient to parents, without under- 
standing, covenant-breakers, without natural af- 
fection, implacable, unmerciful : who, knowing 
the judgment of God, that they which commit 
such things are worthy of death, not only do the 
same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 

Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covet- 
ous, boaster?, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to 






OF THE BIBLE. 6S 

parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural 
uftectjw? truce breakers, false accusers, incon- 
tinent,*nerce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God. 

God saw that the wickedness of man was s 
in the earth, and that every imagination of the 
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 



chap, xvl 

DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY, 

There are three that bare record in heaven, 
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost : and 
these three are one. 

God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
mtir likeness. And the Lord God said, Behold., 
the man is become as one of us. 

The Lof(1 said let us go down, and there con- 
found their language. 

One cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, 
holy, is the Lord of hosts. 

By the Word of the Lord were the heavens 
made ; and all the host of them hy the breath 
{Spirit) of his mouth. 

I am the Lord that maketh all things 5 that 
^tretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth 
abroad the earth by myself. 

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read-— 
for my mouth it hath commanded, and his Spirit 
it hath gathered them. 

Jesus said unto him, if a man love me, he will 
keep my words : and my Father will love him, 
and we will come unto him, and make our abode 
with him. 

Tliere is but one God 9 the Father*, of whom are 



70 COMPENDIUM 

ail things, and we in him : and one Lord Jesus 
Christ, by whom are all things, and we in him. 

Christ Jesus being in the form of God, thought 
it not robbery to be equal with God. 

As thou Father art in me, and I'm thee, that 
they may be one in us. 

The Father dwelieth in me. Tand my Father 
are one. Jam in the Father, and the Father in 
ive. He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father. 
If ye had known me, ye should have known my 
Father also. He that receiveth me, receiveth 
him that sent me. All things that the Father 
hath are mine. All mine are thine, and thine are 
mine ; and Jam glorified in them. 

The Zord God, and his Spirit, hath sent ?jie, 
(Christ.) 

Go ye, and teach all nations, baptizing them 
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, ani|ft 
of the J/o/y Ghost. 

The iorc? (ffce Z/bty Ghost) direct your hearts 
into the love of God, (the Father) and into the 
patient waiting for Christ. 

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 
love of God, and the communion of the Holy 
Ghost,be with you all. 

The Father that sent me beareth ivitness of me.* 

I (Jesus) am one that bear witness of myself. 

It is the Spirit that beareth ivitness. 

Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the 
most high over all the earth. 

This is his name whereby he (Christ) shall be 
called, The Lord (Jehovah) our righteousness. 

The Lord God (Jehovah) put forth the form of 
an hand, and took me, — and the Spirit lifted me 
up between the earth and the heaven. , 

The same Lord over all is rich unto all that 
call upon him. 



OF THE BIBLE. ft 

Unto you is born this day in the city of David, 
a 8:iviour which is Christ the Lord. 

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or 
being his counsellor, hath taught him ? 

They glorified the God of Israel. 

Many "of the children of Israel shall he turn to 
the Lord their God: and he shall go before him, 
(Christ.) 

The Spirit of the Lord spake by me — the God 
of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. 

1 myself serve the law of God, 

Fulfil the law of Christ. 

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, 
hath made me free from the law of sin and 
death. 

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God : 

Neither let us tempt Christ. 
t 1 How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt 
the Spirit of the Lord. 

Who hath known the mind of the Lord ? 

We have the mind of Christ. 

He that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is 
the mind of the Spirit. 

This is the will of God. 

The God of our Fathers hath chosen thee, that 
t thou shouldst know his will, (the will of Christ.) 

The prophecy came not in old time by the tvill 
•of man ; but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost. 

I was made a minister, according to the gift of 
the grace of God given unto me by the effectual 
working of Ms power. 

My strength is made perfect in weakness. 
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my 
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest 
upon me. 



72 COMPENDIUM 

I will not dare to speak of any of those things 
%vhich Christ hath not wrought by me, to make 
the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through 
mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the 
Spirit of God. 

The mystery— -is made manifest, according to 
the commandment of the everlasting God. 

I (Jesus) am Alpha and Omega, the first and 
the last. 

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without 
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead 
works, to serve the living God ? 

Jesus cried in the temple as he taught, saying, 
Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am : 
and I am not come of myself, but he that sent 
me is true. 

These things saith he (Jesws) that is holy, he* 
that is true, he that hath the key of David. 

It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because 
the Spirit is truth. 

Who shall not fear thee, Lord, and glorify 
thy name ? for thou only art holy. 

"Ye denied the Holy One, and the Just, 2nd 
desired a murderer to be granted unto you 5 and 
killed the Prince of life. 

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (the 
Spirit of the Holy One) he shall bring all things 
to your remembrance. 

The Lord is good to all. 

Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good. 

Thy Spirit is good. 

Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever : 
for wisdom and might are his. 

In whom (Christ) are hid all the treasures of 
wisdom m& knowledge. 



OF THE BIBLE. 73 

The Spirit of wisdom and revelation. 

Known unto God are all his works. Thou only 
knowest the hearts of all the children of men. 

Jesus knew all men. Thou Lord knowest the 
hearts of all men. 

, The Spirit searcheth all things. The things 
of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. 

Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord ? 

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father 
of glory, hath put all things under his feet, and 
gave him to be head over all things to the church, 
which is his body, the fulness of him (Christ) 
that filleth all in all. 

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? If I as* 
cend up into heaven thou art there; if I make 
my bed in hell behold thou art there. 

Choose life, that both thou and thy seed may 
live ; that thou mayest love the Lord thy God ; 
for he is thy life. 

When Christ, who is our life shall appear, 
then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 

The Spirit is life. 

The Lord he is God ; it is he that hath made us. 
Thou hast created all things. 

All things were made by him, (Christ.) God 
created all things by Jesus Christ. By him were 
all things created, that are in heaven, and that 
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they 
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or 
powers. 

The Spirit of God hath made me. Thou send- 
est forth thy Spirit, they are created : and thou 
renewest the face of the earth. 

As the Father raiseth up the dead and quick- 
met h them : 

£ven so the Son quickeneih whem he w'dh 



74 COMPENDIUM 

It is the Spirit that quickeneth. 

They shall be all taught of God. 

The gospel which was preached of me is nof 
after man : for 1 neither received it of man, 
neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of 
Jesus Christ. 

The Comforter — the Holy Ghost — shall teach 
you all things. 

Truly our fellowship is with the Father : 

And with his Son Jesus Christ. 

The communion {fellowship) of the Holy 
Ghost be with you all. 

God is in you of a truth. 

Jesus Christ is in you. exceptye be reprobates, 

The Spirit dwelleth with you, and shall be in 
yon. 

God hath said, I will dwell in them. 

1 bow my knees unto the Father — that Christ 
may dwell in your hearts. 

He that raised up Christ from the dead shall 

also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit 

lleth in you* 

shall reveal even this unto you. 

itber received it (the gospel) of man, nei- 

I taught it, but by the revelation of 

d unto him by the Holy Ghost, 
Id not i-ee death before lie had seen 
• Christ. 

ho spake unto the fathers by the pro- 
. hath spoken unto us. 
Ye seek a proof of Christ speaJcingm me. 
It is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost 
Thus saith the Lord — I am the Lord that 

i of God — I know 



OF THE BIBLE. 75 

thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, 
and thy patience. 

The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Bat 
and Saul tor the work whereunto I have called 
them. 

God hath both raised up the Lord, and will 
also raise up us by his own power. 

Jesus answered, and said, Destroy this Tem- 
ple, and in three days I will raise it up. 

Christ hath once suffered for sins — being put 
to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. 

I am the Lord thy God, which leadeth thee by 
the way that thou shouldest go. 

He {Christ the Shepherd) calleth his own shec[. 
by name, and leadeth them out. 

As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they 
are the sons of God. 

Our sufficiency is of God, who hath made us 
able ministers. 

Christ Jesus our Lord — counted me faithful, 
2mtting me into the ministry. 

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the 
flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you 
overseers. 

Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he will 
send forth labourers into his harvest. 

Christ sent me to preach the gospel. 

They, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, 
departed into Seleucia 5 and they preached the 
word of God. 

Jwde, to them that are sanctified by God : the 
Father, mercy unto you. 

He {Christ) that sanctifieth, and they who are 
sanctified, are ail of one: for which cause he is 
not ashamed to call them brethren. 

Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. 



76 COMPENDIUM 

There are diversities of operations, but it i£ 
the same God which worketh all in alL 

Christ is all, and in all. 

All these worketh that one and the self-same 
Spirit. 

These be they who separate themselves, sen- 
sual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, 
building up yourselves on your most holy faith, 
praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in 
the love of God, looking for the mercy of our 
Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 

I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven 
and earth is named, that he would grant you ac* 
cording to the riches of his glory, to be strength- 
ened with might by his Spirit in the inner man ; 
that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; 
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 
may be able to comprehend with all saints, what 
is "the breadth, and length, and depth, and 
height 5 and to know the love of Christ, which 
passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with 
all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is 
able to do exceeding abundantly above all that 
we ask or think, according to the power that 
worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church 
by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world with- 
out end. Amen. 

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisi- 
ble, the only wise God, be honour and glory for 
ever and ever. Amen. 

Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from 
our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings 
and priests unto God and his Father : to him be 
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

Jilessed be God, even the God of all comfort. 



OF THE BIBLE. 77 

CHAP. XVII. 

DUTIES OF CHRISTIAN BRETHREN. 

Love as brethren. Be kindly affectioned one 

to another with brotherly love. Ye yourselves 
are taught of God to love one another. 

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye 
love one another. 

By this shall all men know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have love one to another. 

Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel 
of Christ. If any man have not the spirit of Christ, 
he is none of his. They that are Christ's have 
crucified the flesh, with the affections and I i rts. 

Let every one that nameth (he name of CI 
-depart from iniquity. 

1 beseech you that ye walk worlhy of the voca- 
tion wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness 
and meekness, with long-suffering, forbea 
one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the 
unity of the spirit in tke bond of peace. 

Be at peace among yourselves. Let the peace 
of God rule in your hearts. 

I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same 
thing, and that there be no division among you ; 
but that ye be perfectly joined together in the 
same mind, and in the same judgment. 

Put on as the elect of God, holy and beloved, 
bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, 
meekness, long-suffering $ forbearing one anoth- 
er, and forgiving one another, if any man have a 
quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, 
so also do ye. 

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and 



78 COMPENDIUM 

evil- speaking, be put away from you with all 
malice : and be ye kind one to another, tenderr 
hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for 
Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 

Peter came to him, and said, Lord, How oft 
shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive 
him ? Till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him, I 
say not unto thee, Until seven times ; but, Until 
seventy times seven. 

Why dost thou judge thy brother ? or why dost 
thou set at nought thy brother ? Who art thou 
that judgest another man's servant r to his own 
master he standeth or falleth. Let us not there- 
fore judge one another any more : but judge this 
rather ; that no man put a stumbling block or an 
occasion to fall in his brother's way. 

If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and ther$ 
t-ememberest that thy brother hath ought against 
thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and 
go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother^ 
and then come and offer thy gift. 

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye 
which are spiritual, restore such an one in the 
spirit of meekness ; considering thyself lest thou 
also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, 
and so fulfil the law of Christ. 

Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother tres- 
pass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, 
forgive him. And if he trespass against thee 
seven times in a day, and seven times in a day 
turn again to thee, saying, 1 repent ; thou shalt 
forgive him. 

If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go 
and tell him his fault between thee and him 
alone : if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy 
•brother- But if he will not hea<r the*^ then tak^ 



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with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of 
two or three witnesses every word may be estab- 
lished. And it he shall neglect to hear them, 
tell it unto the church : and if he neglect to hear 
the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen 
man and a publican. 

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, 
and one convert him ; let him know, that he which 
converteth the sinner from the error of his way, 
shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a 
multitude of sins. 

A man that is an heretick, after the first and 
second admonition, reject : knowing that he that 
is such, is subverted, and sinneth, being con- 
demned of himself. 

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but 
not to doubtful disputations. 

We exhort you, brethren, warn them that are 
unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the 
weak, be patient towards all men. 

See that none render evil for evil unto any 
man ; but ever follow that which is good, both 
among yourselves, and to all men. 

Walk in wisdom toward them that are with- 
out. Provide things honest in the sight of all 
men. Let your light so shine before men that 
they may see your good works and glorify your 
Father which is in heaven. Let not your good 
be evil spoken of. 

Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue ; 
and to virtue knowledge ; and to knowledge tem- 
perance ; and to temperance patience ; and to 
patience godliness ; and to godliness brotherly 
kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity. 

Abhor that which rs eril 5 cleave to that which 
is good. 



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Speak not evil one of another, brethren. Be 
perfect; be of good comfort, be of one mind, live 
in peace, and the God of love and peace shall 
be with you. 

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, 
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things 
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever 
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of goo.d 
report; if there be any virtue, and if there be 
any praise, think on these things. 

Brethren, I commend you to God, and to the 
word of his grace, which is able to build you up, 
and to give you an inheritance among all them 
which are sanctified. 

Grace be with all them that love our Lord 
Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. 

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 
love of God, and the communion pf the Holy 
Ghost, be with you all. Amen, 

CHAP. XVIII. 

DUTIES TO ENEMIES. 

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, 
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them 
which despitefully use you and persecute you ; 
that ye may be the children of your Father which 
is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on 
the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on 
the just and on the unjust. 

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let 
pot thine heart be glad when he stumbleth. He 
that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. 

Be pitiful : not rendering evil for evil, or rail- 
ing for railing : but contrariwise blessing. 



OF THE BIBLE, 81 

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done 
to me : I will render to the man according to 
his work. 

Say not thou, I will recompense evil. Recom- 
pense to no man evil for evil. 

I say unto you that ye resist not evil : but who- 
soever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn 
to him the other also. And if any man shall sue 
thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him 
have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall com- 
pel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 

Being reviled, we biess : being persecuted, we 
suffer it : being defamed, we entreat. 

Thou shalt not avenge or bear any grudge- 
against the children of thy people. 

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to 
eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to 
drink : for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his 
head, and the Lord shall reward thee. 

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but 
rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, 
Vengeance is mine; 1 will repay saith the Lord. 
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him : if 
he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou, 
shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evH 
with good. 



CHAP. XIX, 

DUTIES TO GOD. 

Believe in the Lord your God. Believe oi\ 
the Lord Jesus Christ. Having the Spirit of 
faith we believe. 

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 



82 COMPENDIUM 

heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind. This is the first and great commandment. 
And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love 
thy neighbour as thyself. On these two com- 
mandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and 
him only shalt thou serve. 

From the rising of the sun even unto the going 
down of the same, my name shall be great among 
the Gentiles; and in everyplace incense shall 
be offered unto my name, and a pure offering : 
for my name shall be great among the heathen, 
saith the Lord of hosts. 

worship the Lord in the beauty of holi- 
ness. 

Be fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord. God 
is a spirit : and they that worship him, must 
worship him in spirit and in truth. 

By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. 

Fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and 
in truth. Serve him in truth with all your heart : 
for consider how great things he hath done for 
you. Serve him with a perfect heart and with a 
willing mind. 

As for me and my house, we will serve the 
Lord. Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and 
there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 
If God be for us, who can be against us ? 

1 will that men pray every where, lifting up j 
holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, i 
and to sing^praises unto thy name, O Most High 
to shew forth thy loving kindness in the mornings 
and thy faithfulness every night. 

Bless ye the Lord. Sing praises to the Lord. 
Ogive thanks unto th»e Lord. 



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Be ye thankful. In every thing give thanks. 
Let us offer the saci'ifice of praise to God contin- 
ually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks 
to his name. Be thankful unto him. Forget not 
all his benefits. 

Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. 

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes 
observe my ways. 

Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God. Re* 
member now thy Creator in the days of thy 
youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years 
draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleas- 
ure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or the 
moon, or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds 
return after rain : in the day when the keepers 
of the house shall tremble, and the strong men 
shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease be- 
cause they are few, and those that look out of 
the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be 
shut in the streets, when the sound of the grind- 
ing is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the 
bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be 
brought low ; also when they shall be afraid of 
that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, 
and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grass- 
hopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail : 
because man goeth to his long home, and the 
mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver 
cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or 
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the 
wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the 
dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit 
shall return unto God who gave it. 

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker ! 
Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, what 
makest thou ? 



84 COMPENDIUM 

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and 
my fortress : my God ; in him will I trust. Thou 
shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; nor 
for the arrow that flieth by day 5 nor for th6 
pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for 
the destruction that wasteth at noonday. Be- 
cause thou hast made the Lord which is my re- 
fuge, even the Most High, thy habitation ; there 
shall no evil befal thee, neither shall any plague 
come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his 
angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy 
ways. 

Submit yourselves to God. Trust in the Lord 
with all thine heart: in all thy ways acknowledge 
him. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the 
Lord. 

The will of the Lord be done. 

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither 
shall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive 
shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat ; the 
flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall 
be no herd in the stalls : yet I will rejoice in the 
Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. 

None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth 
to himself. For whether we live, we live unto 
the Lord : and whether we die, we die unto the 
Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are 
the Lord's. 

Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 

Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in 
the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to 
God and the Father by him. 

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. 

Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for 
<his is the whole duty of man. 



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CHAP. XX. 

DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. 

Rejoice with the wife of thy youth, and be 
thou ravished always with her love. 

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, 
and obtaineth favour of the Lord. A prudent 
wife is from the Lord. 

Art thou bound to a wife ? seek not to be loosed, 

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter 
against them. 

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also 
loved the church, and gave himself for it : that it 
should be holy and without blemish. So ought 
men to love their wives as their own bodies. He 
that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man 
ever yet hated his own flesh ; but nourisheth and 
cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church : for 
we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of 
his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his 
father and mother, and shall be joined unto his 
wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 

Let none deal treacherously against the wife 
of his youth. 

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest 
all the days of the life of thy vanity. 

Let every one of you in particular so love his 
wife even as himself; and the wife see that she 
reverence her husband. 

Teach the young; women to love their hus- 
bands, to love their children, to be discreet, 
chaste, keepers at home. 

Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. 

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own hus- 
oandg, as it is lit in the Lord. 
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So COMPENDIUM 

Wives submit yourselves unto your own hus- 
bands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the 
head of the wife, even as Christ is the bead of 
the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 
Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, 
so let the wives be to their own husbands in every 
thing. 

Let not the wife depart from her husband : but 
if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be 
reconciled to her husband : Jind let not the hus- 
band put away his wife. 

Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for 
the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit 
adultery : and whosoever shall marry her that is 
divorced committeth adultery. 

Let every man have his own wife, and let every 
woman have her own husband. Let the husband 
render unto the wife due benevolence, and like- 
wise also the wife unto the husband. 

I will that women adorn themselves in modest 
apparel, with shame-facedness and sobriety ; not 
with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly 
array ; but (which becometh women professing 
godliness) with good works. 

Whose adorning let it not be that outward 
adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of 
gold, or of putting on of apparel: but let it be 
the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not 
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and 
quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great 
price. 

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. 

Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price 
is far above rabies. The heart of her husband 
doth safely trust in her. She will do him good 
and not evil all the days other life. She seekcth 



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wool and flax and workcth willingly with her 

hands. She laycth her hands to the spindle, and 
her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out 
her hands to the poor ; yea, she reacheth forth her 
hands to the needy. Strength and honour are 
her clothing ; and she shall rejoice in time to 
come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; 
and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She 
looketh well to the ways of her household, and 
eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children 
arise up, and call her blessed : her husband also, 
and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done 
virtuously, but thou excellest them all. 

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : but a 
woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised, 

CHAP. XXI. 

DUTIES CF MAGISTRATES AND CITIZENS. 

He that ruleth overmen must be just, ruling 
in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light 
jof the morning without clouds; as the tender 
grass springing out of the earth by clear shining 
after rain. 

Thou shalt provide out of all the people able 
men, such as fear Ged, men of truth, hating covet- 
ousness ; and place such over them to be rulers, 

Where no counsel is, the people fall : but in 
the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all 
thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee 
throughout thy tribes : and they shall judge the 
people with just judgment. 

Be wise. 6 ye kings : be instructed- ye judges 
of the earjth. 



88 COMPENDIUM 

Thus saith the Lord ; execute ye judgment 
and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of 
the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do 
no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor 
the widow, neither shed innocent blood. 

I exhort that first of all, supplications, prayers, 
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for 
all men ; for kings, and for all that are in author- 
ity ; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life 
in all godliness and honesty. For this is good 
and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. 

Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy 
people. 

Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. 

Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought : for 
a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that 
which hath wings shall tell the matter. 

Honour the king. I counsel thee to keep the 
king's commandment, and that in regard of the 
oath of God, 

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man 
for the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as 
supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that 
are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, 
and for the praise of them that do well. 

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities 
and powers, to obey magistrates, to be read v tor* 
every good work. 

Let every soul be subject unto the higher pow- 
ers. For there is no power but of God : the pow- 
ers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever 
therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordi- 
nance of God : and they that resist shall receive 
to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a 
terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou 
then not be afraid of the power ? do that which 



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% *s good, and thou shalt have praise of the same : 
for he is the minister of God to thee for good. 
But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for 
he beareth not the sword in vain : for he is the 
minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath 
upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must 
needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for 
conscience sake. For this cause pay ye tribute 
also : for they are God's ministers, attending 
inually upon this very thing. Render there- 
to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute 
is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom 
; :i«»:^ ur to whom honour. 
Render unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's. 
Jesus saith unto him, Lest we should offend 
thenij take that piece of money, and give unto 
them for me and tlive. 

An evil man seeketh only rebellion. 
These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise 
dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 

The Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust 
unto the day of judgment to be punished: but 
chiefly them that walk after the lust of unclean- 
ness and despise government. Presumptuous 
are they, self-willed ; they are not afraid to speak 
evil of dignities. 

Whosoever will not do the law of thy God, 
and the law of the king, let judgment be exe- 
cuted speedily upon him, whether it be unto 
death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of 
goods, or to imprisonment. 

When the righteous are in authority, the peo- 
ple rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, 
the people mourn. 

The wicked walk on every side, when the 
ted. 



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90 COMPENDIUM 

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees. 
Great men are not always wise. 
The prince that wanteth understanding is also 
a great oppressor. 

Shall he that hateth right, govern ? 
Surely, oppression maketh a wise man mad. 
T returned, and considered ali the oppressions 
that are done under the sun : and behold the tears 
of such as were oppressed, and they had no com- 
forter ; and on the side of the oppressors there 
was power; and they had no comforter. Where- 
fore I praised the dead which are already dead 
more than the living. 

if thou seest the oppressions of the poor, and 
voilent perverting of judgment and justice in a 
province, marvel not at the matter : for he that 
is higher than the highest regardeth 5 and there 
be higher than they. 

Saul answered, thou shalt surely die, Jonathan, 
And the people said unto Saul, shall Jonathan 
die, who hath wrought this great salvation in 
Israel ? God forbid : as the Lord liveth, there 
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground: 
for he hath wrought with God this day. So the 
people rescued Jonathan, that he died not. 

The king said unto the footmen that stood 
about him, turn and slay the priests of the Lord ; 
because their hand also is with David, and be- 
cause they knew when he fled, and did not shew 
it to me. But the servants of the king would not 
put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the 
Lord. 

All the king's servants, that were in the king's 
gate, bowed, and reverenced Hainan : for the 
king had so commanded concerning him. But 
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OF THE BIBLE. 91 

If ye worship not the image which I have 
made ; ye shall be cast the same hour into the 
midst of a burning fiery furnace. Be it known 
unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy 
gods, nor worship the golden image which thou 
Jiast set up. 

All the presidents of the kingdom, the gover- 
nors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the 
captains, have consulted together to establish a 
royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that 
whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man 
for thirty days, save of thee, king ; he shall be 
cast into th^ den of lions. King Darius signed 
the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel 
knew that the writing was signed, he went into 
his house : and his windows being open in his 
chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his 
knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave 
thanks before his God. 

They called them, and commanded them not 
to speak at all, nor teach, in the name of Jesus, 
But Peter and John answered and said unto 
them, whether it be right in the sight of God to 
hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. 
For we cannot but speak the things winch we 
have seen and heard. We ought to obey God 
Father than men. 



CHAP. XXII. 

DUTIES TO MANKIND. 

All things whatsoever ye would that men 
should do to you, do ye even so to them 5 for this 
is the iaw and the prophets. 

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt 



92 COMPENDIUM 

not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt ; not 
bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet: and if 
there be any other commandment, it is briefly 
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour : therefore 
love is the fulfilling of the law. 

A certain lawyer stood up ? and tempted him, 
saying. Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal 
life ? And Jesus said unto him, What is written 
in the law ? How readest thou ? And he answer- 
ing, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
all thy heart, and with ail thy soul, and with all 
thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy 
neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, 
Thou hast answered right : this do, and thou shalt 
live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto 
Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus an- 
swering, said, A certain man went chown from Je- 
rusalem to Jerico, and fell among thieves, which 
stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, 
and departed, leaving him half dead. And by 
chance there came down a certain priest that way; 
and when he saw him, he passed by on the other 
side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the 
place, came and looked on him, and passed by on 
the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he 
journeyed, came where he was : and when he saw 
him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, 
and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine ; 
and set him on his own beast, and brought him to 
an inn, and took care of him. And on the mor- 
row, when he departed, he took out two pence, 
and gave them to the host, and said unto him, 
Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spenciest 
more, when I come again I will repay thee. Which. 



OF THE BIBLE. 93 

now of these throe, thinkcst thou was neighbour 
unto him who fell among the thieves ? and he 
paid, He that shewed mercy on him. Then Jesus 
said unto him, go, and do thou likewise. 

Covet earnestly the best gifts. Having gifts 
differing according to the grace that is given to 
ks, whether prophecy, let us prophecy according 
to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us wait 
on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teach- 
ing; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that 
giveth, let him do it with simplicity: he that 
ruleth, with diligence: he that sheweth mercy, 
with cheerfulness. 

Let no man seek his own, but every man an- 
other's wealth, 

l)o good ; be kindly affectioned ; be harmless ; 
be blameless; do justly; and render to all their 
dues- 



CHAP. XXIII. 

DUTIES CF MASTERS AND SERVANTS, 

Masters, give unto your servants that which 
is just and equal ; forbearing threatening : know- 
ing that your Master also is in heaven ; neither 
is there respect of persons with him. 

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that 
is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, 
or of thy strangers. 

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour. 

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have 
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept 
back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which 
have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord 
«f Sabb&oth- 



94 COMPENDIUM 

A servant bonouretli his master. He that 
waiteth on his master shall be honoured. 

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that 
cause tli shame. 

Be content with your wages. 

Servants, be subject to your masters with all 
fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also 
to the froward. 

Servants, obey in all things your masters accord- 
ing to the tiesh; not with eye service, as men- 
pieasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : 
and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the 
Lord, and not unto men : knowing that whatsoever 
good thing any man doeth, the same shall he re- 
ceive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. 

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own 
masters, and to please them well in all things ; 
not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing 
all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine 
of God our Saviour in all things. 

CHAP. XXIV. 

DUTIES OF MINISTERS AND PEOPLE. 

How beautiful are the feet of them that preaeli 
the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of 
good things ! 

Take heed to the ministry which thou hast re- 
ceived in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. 

O man of God, follow after righteousness, god- 
liness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the 
good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, where- 
unto thou art also called, and hast professed a 
good profession before many witnesses. 

Strive not about words to no profit, but to tke 



OF THE BIBLE. 95 

subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself 
approved unto God, a workman that needeth not 
to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they 
will increase unto more ungodliness. Flee also 
youthful lusts : but follow righteousness, faith,, 
charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord 
out of a pure heart. But foolish and unlearned 
questions avoid, knowing that they do gender 
strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not 
strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, 
patient, in meekness instructing tbose that op- 
pose themselves; if God peradventure will give, 
them repentance to the acknowledging of the 
truth ; and that they may recover themselves out 
of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive 
by him at his will. 

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles 
of God ; if any man minister, let him do it as of 
the ability which God giveth : that God in all 
things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to 
whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. 
Amen. 

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not 
to who! some words, even the words of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is accord- 
ing to godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothings 
but dot'fig about questions and strifes of words, 
whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmis- 
ing*, pcryerse disputings of men of corrupt minds, 
and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is 
godliness; from such withdraw thyself. 

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a 
trumpet, and shew my people their transgression. 

Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether 
will hear, or whether they will forbear. 



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Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound 
in the faith. 

Thou, son of man, I have set thee a watch- 
man unto the house of Israel ; therefore thou 
shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them 
from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked 
man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak 
to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked 
man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will 
I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou 
warn the wicked of his way to turn from it ; if he 
do not turn from his way, he shall die in his ini- 
quity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 

Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an 
example of the believers, in word, in conversa- 
tion, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till 
I come, give attendance to reading? to exhorta- 
tion, to doctrine. Neglect not the gift that is m 
thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the 
laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate 
upon these things : give thyself wholly to them ; 
that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed 
unto thyself, and unto thy doctrine ; continue in 
them ; for in doing this thou shalt both save thy- 
self, and them that hear thee. 

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to 
thy trust, avoiding profane babblings, and opposi- 
tions of science, falsely so called. 1 charge thee 
before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall 
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing 
and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant 
in season, out of season: reprove, rebuke, ex 
hort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For 
the time will come when they will not endure 
sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall 
they heap to themselves teachers: having itching 



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ears; and they shall turn away their ears from 
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But 
watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the 
work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy 
ministry. 

Continue thou in the things which thou hast 
learned and hast been assured of, knowing of 
whom thou hast learned them ; and that from a 
child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which 
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through 
faith which is in Jesus Christ. All scripture is 
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for 
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruc- 
tion in righteousness: that the man of God may 
be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good 
works. 

A certain Jew, named Apollos born at Alexan- 
dria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scrip- 
tures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed 
in the way of the Lord ; and being fervent in the 
spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things 
of the Lord* 

Speak thou the things which become sound 
doctrine ; that the aged men be sober, grave, tem- 
perate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience £ 
the aged women likewise, that they be in behav- 
iour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not 
given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that 
they may teach the young women to be sober, to 
love their husbands, to love their children, to be 
discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient 
to their own husbands, that the word of God be 
not blasphemed. Young men likewise exhort to 
be sober minded. In all things shewing thyself 
a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing 
uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,, sound speech. 
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9B COMPENDIUM 

that cannot be condemned : that he that is of the 
contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil 
thing to say of you. Exhort servants to be obedi* 
ent unto their own masters, and to please them 
well in all things; not answering again: not 
purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that 
they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour 
in all things. 

As we were allowed of God to be put in trust 
with the gospel, even so we speak ; not as pleas- 
ing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 

I determined not to know any thing among 
you, save Jesus Christ, and him Crucified. And 
my speech and my preaching was not with entic- 
i ng words of man's wisdom, but in demonstra- 
tion of the Spirit and of power : that your faith 
should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the 
power of God. 

I have not shunned to declare unto you all the 
counsel of God. 

If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desir- 
eth a good work. A bishop then must be blame- 
less, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of 
good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; 
not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy- 
lucre ; but patient ; not a brawler, not covetous ; 
one that ruleth well his own house, having his 
children in subjection with all gravity: for if & 
man know not how to rule his own house, how 
shall he take care of the church of God ? not a 
novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into 
the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he 
must have a good report of them which are with- 
out ; lest he fell into reproach, and the snare of 
the devil. Likewise must, the deacons be grave, 
not double tongued, not given to much wine, not 



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greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the 
faith in a pure conscience. And let these also 
iirst be proved ; then let them use the office of a 
deacon, being found blameless. Let the deacons 
be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children 
and their own houses well. For they that have 
used the office of a deacon well, purchase to them- 
selves a good degree, and great boldness in tue 
faith which is in Jesus Christ. 

A bishop must be a lover of hospitality, a lover 
of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; hold- 
ing fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, 
that he may be able by sound doctrine both to 
exhort and to convince the gainsayers. 

The elders which are among you I exhort : feed 
the flock of God which is among you, taking the 
oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; 
not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither 
as being lords over God's heritage, but being 
ensamples to the flock. And, when the chief 
Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown 
of glory that fadeth not away. 

Let the elders that rule well, be counted wor- 
thy of double honour, especially they which labour 
in the word and doctrine. 

Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he will 
send forth labourers into his harvest. 

The labourer is worthy of his reward. Who 
goeth a warfare any time at his own charges ? 
who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the 
fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth 
not of the milk of the flock ? Even so hath the 
Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel 
should live of the gospel. 

I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus 
Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that 



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you strive together with me in your prayers to 
God for me. Praying for me that utterance may 
be given unto me, that I may open my mouth 
boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, 
for which I am an ambassador in bonds : that 
therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. 

Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the 
Lord may have free course, and be glorified. 

We beseech you, brethren, to know them which 
labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, 
and admonish you; and to esteem them very 
highly in love for their work's sake. 

Remember them which have the rule over you, 
who have spoken unto you the word of God $ 
whose faith foilw, considering the end of their 
conversation. Obey them that have the rule over 
you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for 
your souls, as they that must give an account, 
that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. 

How shall they hear without a preacher ? Faith 
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of 
God. 

Take heed how ye hear. Take heed what ye 
hear. 

Be not carried about with divers and strange 
doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart 
be established with grace. 

The Spirit speaketh expressly, tbat in the 
latter times some shall depart from the faith giv- 
ing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of 
devils. 

In vain do they worship me, teaching for doc- 
trines the commandments of men. Ye reject the 
commandments of God, that ye may keep your 
own tradition. 

Beware lest any man spoil you through philo* 



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sophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, 
after the rudiments of the world, and not after 
Christ. 

There be some that trouble you, and would 
pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or 
an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel 
unto you than that which we have preached unto 
you, let him be accursed. 

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of 
you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from 
the living God. 

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write 
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful 
for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye 
should earnestly contend for the faith which was 
once delivered unto the saints. For there are 
certain men crept in unawares, who were before 
of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly 
men, turning the grace of our God into lascivi- 
ousness, and denying the only Lord ^Jod, and 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 



CHAP. XXV. 

DUTIES OF PARE*TS AND CHILDREN. 

If any provide not for his own, and specially 
for those of his own house, he hath denied the 
faith, and is worse than an infidel. 

The parents ought to lay up for the children* 

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit 
the wind. 

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord. 

Fathers, provake not your children to anger, 
Jest they be discouraged; but bring them up in 
ijje nurture and admonition of the Lord. 
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%$% COMPENDIUM 

These words, which I command thee this day 5 
shall be in thine heart; and thou shalt teach them 
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of 
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when 
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest 
down, and when thou risest up, and thou shalt 
bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they 
shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, and thou 
shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and 
on thy gates. 

Train up a child in the way he should go : and 
when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Chasten thy son while there is nope, and let 
not thy soul spare for his crying. Withhold not 
correction from the child. He that spareth his 
rod, hateth his son : but he that ioveth him, chas- 
teneth him betimes. Foolishness is bound in the 
heart of a child 5 but the rod of correction shall 
drive it far from him. The rod and reproof give 
wisdom : but a child left to himself, bnngeth his 
mother to shame. Correct thy son, and he shall 
give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto 
thy soul. 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for 
this is right. • 

Children, obey your parents in all things : for 
this is well pleasing unto the Lord, 

A son honoureth his father. 

Honour thy father and mother, which is the 
first commandment with promise ; that it may 
be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on 
the earth. 

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his 
father. 

Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and de- 
spise cot thy mother when, she ^s old. 



OF THE BIBLE. 

A wise son maketh a glad father : but a foolish 
son is the heaviness of his mother. 

My son keep thy father's commandment, and 
forsake not the law of thy mother. 

My son hear the instruction of thy father, and 
forsake not the law of thy mother : for they shall 
be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and 
chains about thy neck. 

A fool despiseth his father's instruction : but 
he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruc- 
tion ; but he that hateth reproof shall die. 

The eye that mocketh at his father, and des- 
piseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the val- 
ley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall 
eat it. 

There is a generation that curseth their fa ther, 
and doth not bless their mother. 

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father, or 
his mother. 

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and 
saith, It is no transgression 5 the same is the 
companion of a destroyer. 

A brother offended is harder to be won than a 
strong city ; and their contentions are like the 
bars of a castle. 

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for 
brethren to dwell together in unity ! 



CHAP. XXVI. 

ENVY. 



The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy* 
The works of the flesh are strife, envyings. 
If ye have bitter envying and strife in your 



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hearts, glory not : for where envying and strife 
is, there is confusion and every evil work. 

I considered all travail, and every right work, 
that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. 

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither 
d e s i re to be w i th the m . 

Let not thine heart envy sinners. 

Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither 
be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slaj eth 
the silly «ne. 

A sound heart is the life of the flesh : but envy 
the rottenness of the bones. 

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous $ but 
who is able to stand before envy? 



CHAP. XXVII. 

EQUALITY. 

God hath made of one blood all nations of men 
to dwell on the face of the earth. 

Have we not all one father ? hath not one God 
Created us ? 

The rich and the poor meet together : the Lord 
is the maker of them all. lie fashioneth their 
hearts alike. 

The Almighty accept eth not the persons of 
princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the 
poor: for t\\tj are all the work of his hands. 

There is no differance between the Jew and 
the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich 
unto ali that call upon him. 

We also are men of like passions with you. 

All things came alike to aii : there is one a\ent 
ta the righteous and the wricked. All go unto 



6F THE BIBLE. 105 

one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust 
again. 

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the 
worms shall cover them. 

The memory of them is forgotten. Also their 
love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now 
perished. 

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to 
the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet 
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to 
men of skill $ but time and chance happeneth to 
them all. 



CHAP. XXVIII. 

EVIL-SPEAKING. 

Put them in mind to speak evil of no man. 

Thou shalt not raise a false report. Keep thefc 
far from a false matter. 

A good name is rather to be chosen^h an great 
riches. He that uttereth a sland^te a fool. 

Keep not company with a railer. 

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? He 
that backbiteth not with his tongue. 

I fear lest there be backbitings, whisperings. 

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and per- 
verse lips put far from thee. 

A froward man soweth strife : and a whisperer 
separateth chief friends. 

Thou shalt net go up and down as a talebearer 
among thy people. 

He that goeth about as a talebearer, revealeth 
secrets. 

Where there is no talebearer the strife ceas- 
eth, 



M)fi COMPENDIUM 

Uncleanness, let it not be once named among 
you ; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor 
jesting. 

Remove from me reproach and contempt . 

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from 
speaking guile. 

Let all evil-speaking be put away from you. 



CHAP. XXIX. 

FAITH AND WORKS. 

Be not faithless but believing. Lord, I believe, 
beln thou mine tinbelief. 

Faith is the substance of things hoped tor, the 
evidence of things not seen. 

Jesus saith unto them, have faith m God. Ye 
believe in God, believe also in me. No man can 
sav that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 

He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, 
and preach the gospel to every creature. He that 
believeth and is baptized, shall be saved ; but he 
that believeth not, shall be damned. 

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting 
life : and he that believeth not on the Son shall 
not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on 
him. . . 

He that heareth my word, and bebeveth on him 
thai sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not 
come into condemnation ; but is passed front 
death unto life. , 

He that believeth on him is not condemned j 
but he that believeth not is condemned already , 
because he hath not believed in the name ol the 
only begotten Son of God. And this is the con- 
damnation, that light has come into the world 



OF THE BIBLE. 107 

and men loved darkness rather than light, because' 
their deeds were evil. 

Had ye believed Moses, ye would have be- 
lieved me : for he wrote of me. But if ye be- 
lieve not his writings, how shall ye believe my 
words ? 

If they hear not Moses and the prophets, nei- 
ther will they be persuaded though one arose from 
the dead. 

Whosoever shall confess me before men, him 
will I confess also before my Father which is in 
heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before 
men, him will I deny before my Father which is 
in heaven. 

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is 
the Christ ? He is antichrist, that denieth the 
Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the 
Son, the same hath not the Father : but he that* 
acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 

Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my 
words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, 
of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, 
when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with. 
the holy angels. 

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and 
one God and Father of all, who is above all, and 
through all, and in you all. 

Without faith it is impossible to please him : 
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, 
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently 
seek him. 

Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 

Knowing that a man is not justified by the 
works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. 
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we 
might be justified by the faith of Christ, and Bit 



108 COMPENDIUM 

by the works of the law : for by the works of 
the law shall no flesh be justified. 

If righteousness come by the law, then Christ 
is dead in vain. That no man is justified by the 
law in the sight of God, it is evident : for, The 
just shall live by faith. And the law is not of 
faith. 

Examine yourselves whether ye be in the 
faith. 

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of 
you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from 
the living God. 

Let us hold fast the profession- of our faith* 
without wavering, for he is faithful that promis- 
ed ; and let us consider one another to provoke 
unto 1 ove and to good works. 

By works a man is justified} and not by faith 
only. 

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a 
man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can 
faith save him. If a brother or sister be naked, 
and destitute of daily food, and one of you say 
unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and 
filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those 
things which are needful to the body ; what doth 
it profit? Even so faith if it hath not works, is 
dead being alone. Yea, a man may'say, Thou 
hast faith, and I have works : shew me thy faitli 
without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith 
by my works. Thou believest that there is one 
God ; thou doest well : the devih also believe 
and tremble. But wilt thou know, vain man 1 
that faith without works is dead ? 

Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord, 
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven : but he 



OF THE BIBLE. 109 

that doeth the will of my Father that is in hea- 
ven. 

Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and 
doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man 
which built his house upon a rock : and the rain 
descended, and the floods came, and the winds 
blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; 
for it was founded upon a rock. And every one 
that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth 
them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, 
which built his house upon the sand : and the 
rain descended, and the floods came, and the 
winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it 
fell : and great was the fall of it. 

Whosoever shall do the will of my Father 
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and 
sister, and mother. 

If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only. 
Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and 
keep it. 

The kingdom of God is not in word, but in 
power. 

The kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; 
but righteousness and peace, and joy in the 
Holy Ghost. 

Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, 
being fruitful in every good work. 

Let your light so shine before men, that they 
may see your good works, and glorify your Fa- 
ther which is in heaven. 

This is a faithful saying, and these things I 
will that thou affirm constantly, that they which 
have believed in God, might be careful to main- 
tain good works : these things are good and 
profitable unto men, 
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and 
{he Father is this, To visit the fatherless and 
widows in their affliction, and to keep himself 
unspotted from the world. 



CHAP. XXX. 

FASTING. 

When ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a 
sad countenance ; for they disfigure their faces, 
that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily, 
I say unto you, they have their reward. But 
thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and 
wash thy face $ that thou appear not unto men to 
fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret : and 
thy Father which seeth in secret will reward 
thee openly. 

Behold, ye fast, for strife and debate, and to 
smite with the list of wickedness : ye shall not 
fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be 
heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have cho- 
sen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to 
bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread 
sackcloth and ashes under him i. wilt thou call 
this a fast, and an acceptable day ta the Lord ? 
Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose 
the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy bur- 
dens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that 
ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread 
to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that 
are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the 
naked, that thou cover him : and that thou hide 
not thyself from thine own flesh ? Then shall 
thy light break forth as the morning, and thine 
health shall spring forth speedily : and thy right- 



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eousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the 
Lord shall be thy rere-ward. 



CHAP. XXXI. 

FIDELITY. 

A faithful man shall abound with blessings. 
The Lord preserveth the faithful. 

Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land. 

It is required in stewards that a man be found 
faithful. 

If ye have not been faithful in that which is 
another man's, who shall give you that which 
is your own ? 

He that is faithful in that which is least is 
faithful also in much. 

Help, Lord, for the godly man ^easethj for 
the faithful fail from among the children of men. 

A faithful man who can find ? There is no 
faithfulness in their mouth. 

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of 
trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of 
joint. 

Why do we deal treacherously every man 
against his brother ? 

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give 
thee a crown of life. 



CHAP. XXXII. 

FLOOD. 

God saw that the wickedness of man w r as great 
in the earth, and that every imagination of the 
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 



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♦And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I 
have created, from the face of the earth; both 
man and beast, and the creeping things, and the 
fowls of the air. But Noah found grace in the 
eyes of the Lord. The earth also was corrupt 
before God ; and the earth was filled with vio- 
lence. And God looked upon the earth, and be- 
hold, it was corrupt : for all flesh had corrupted 
his way upon the earth. And God said unto 
Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me ; for 
the earth is filled with violence : and behold, I 
will destroy them w T ith the earth. 

Make thee an ark. And behold I, even T, do 
bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy 
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under 
heaven : and every thing that is in the earth 
shall die. But with thee will I establish my cov- 
enant : and thou shalt come into the ark ; thou, 
and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives 
with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, 
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, 
to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male 
and female. And Noah did according unto all 
that the Lord commanded him. 

It came to pass after seven day, that the 
waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the 
sixth hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second 
month, the seventeenth day of the month, the 
same day were all the fountains of the great deep 
broken up, and the windows of heaven were 
opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty 
days and forty nights. And the flood was forty 
days upon the earth ; and the waters increased 
and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the 
earth. And the waters prevailed, and were in- 
creased greatly upon the earth j and the ark 



OF THE BIBLE. 113 

went upon the face of the waters. And the waters 
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all 
the high hills that were under the whole heaven 
were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the 
waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered. 

All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both 
of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every 
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and 
every man. And Noah only remained alive, and 
they that were with him in the ark. And the 
waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and 
fifty days. And God remembered Noah, and 
every living thing, and all the cattle that was 
with him in the ark : and God made a wind to 
pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; 
the fountains also of the deep, and the windows 
of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven 
was restrained : and the waters returned from oft* 
the earth continually : and after the end of the 
hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the 
seventeenth day of the month, upon the moun- 
tains of Ararat. And the waters decreased con- 
tinually until the tenth month : in the tenth 
month on the first day of the month, were the 
tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass, 
in the six hundred and first year, in the first 
month, the first day of the month, the waters 
were dried up from off the earth* And in the 
second month, on the seven and twentieth day 
of the month, was the e^rth dried. 

God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the 
ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy 
sous' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee 
every living thing that is with thee of all flesh. 
And Noah went forth, and his stms, and his wife, 

ro* 



114 COMPENDIUM 

and his sons' wives with him : every beast, every 
creeping thing , and every fowl, and whatsoever 
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went 
forth out of the ark. 

Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took 
of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, 
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And 
the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord 
said in his heart, I will not again curse the 
ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagi- 
nation of man's heart is evil from his youth : 
neither will I again smite any more every living 
thing which I have done. While the earth re- 
maineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and 
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night 
shall not cease. 



CHAP. XXXIIL 

FORGIVENESS, 

Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. 

If ye forgive men their trespasses, your hea- 
venly Father will also forgive you : but if ye for- 
give not men their trespasses, neither will your 
Father forgive your trespasses. 

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. 
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger : and 
it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 

His lord, after that he had called him, said 
unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee 
all that debt, because thou desiredst me : should- 
est not thou also have had compassion on thy 
fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee ? and 
his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the 
tormentors, till he should pay all that was due 



OF THE BIBLE. 115 

unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father 
do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive 
not every one his brother their trespasses. 

They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and 
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he 
kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, 
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And 
when he had said this, he fell asleep. 

When they were come to the place which is 
called Calvary, there they crucified him and the 
malefactors. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive 
them i for they know not what they do. 



CHAP. XXXIV. 

FORTITUDE. 

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be 
gtrong, fear not. 

Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he 
shall strengthen thine heart. 

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou 
hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in 
Jesus Chris*. 

Let us hold fast our profession. Let us come 
boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain 
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 

I go the way of all the earth : be thou strong? 
therefore and shew thyself a man. 

Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be 
strong. 

Be strong in the grace that is in Jesus Christ. 

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his 
might. Put on the whole armour of God, that 
ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the 
devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and 



116 COMPENDIUM 

blood ; Uut against principalities, against powers* 
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places. 
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of 
God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil 
day, and having done all to stand. Stand, there- 
fore having your loins girt about with truth, and 
having on the breastplate of righteousness ; and 
your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel 
of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, 
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery 
darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of 
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is 
the word of God : praying always with all prayer 
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching 
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication 
for all saints. 



CHAP. XXXV. 

FRAILTY AND IMPERFECTION OF MAN. 

All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness 
thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass 
v, ithereth, the flower fadeth. 

As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower 
of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind 
passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place 
thereof shall know it no more. 

We spend our years as a tale that is told. 
The days of our years are threescore years and 
ten ; and if by reason of strength, they be four- 
score years, yet is their strength labour and sor- 
row ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 

Childhood and youth are vanity. Surely every 
man is vanity. Verily every man at tyte 
state is altogether vanity, 



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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : 
surely they are disquieted in vain. 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou 
knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

Here have we no continuing city. 

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to-morrow 
we will go into such a city, and continue there a 
year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas 
ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For 
what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that ap- 
peareth for a little season, and then vanisheth 
away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord 
"will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 

Your fathers, where are they ? and the pro- 
phets, do they live for ever ? 

Man that is born of a woman is of few days 
and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a 
flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shad- 
ow and continueth not. 

Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow 
that passeth away. 

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly 
upward. Man goeth to his long home, and the 
mourners go about the streets. 

The glory of man is as the flower of the grass. 

When he dieth he shall carry nothing away ; 
his glory shall not descend after him. 

In the morning they are like grass which grow- 
ethup. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth 
up ; in the evening it is cut down and withered. 

All. flesh shall perish together, and man shall 
turn again unto dust. 

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his 
earth. 

Thou changest his countenance, and sendest 
him awav. 



118 COMPENDIUM 

Thou takest away their breath, they die, and 
return to their dust. 

I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and 
to the house appointed for all living. 

His days are determined, the number of his 
months are with thee ; thou hast appointed his 
bounds that he cannot pass. 

He shall return no more to his house, neither 
shall his place know him any more. 

When a few years are come, then I shall go 
the way whence I shall not return. 

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see 
me no more : thine eyes are upon me, and I am 
not. 

Man dieth and wasteth away. 

I have said to corruption, thou art my father : 
to the worm, thou art my mother, and my sister. 

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see 
death ? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand 
of the grave ? 

It is appointed unto men once to die. 

There is no man that hath power over the spirit 
to retain the spirit ; neither hath he power in the 
day of death : and there is no discharge in that 
war. 

Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. 
The time of my departure is at hand. 

The time is short : it remaineth, that both they 
that have wives be as though they had none ; and 
they that weep, as though they wept not : and 
they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; 
and they that buy, as though they possessed not : 
and they that use this world, as not abusing it : 
for the fashion of this world passeth away. 

Oh that they were wise, that they understood 
4his, that they would consider t^ieir latter endc 



OF THE BIBLE. n* 

I have seen all the works that are done under 
the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation 
of spirit. 

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the 
measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know 
how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days 
as an hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing 
before thee. 

Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest> 
return ye children of men. 

Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; and 
his angels he charged with folly ; how much less 
in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foun- 
dation is in the dust, which are crushed before 
the moth. They are destroyed from morning to 
evening : they perish forever without any re- 
garding it. Doth not their excellency which is 
in them go away ? They die even without wisdom. 

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, 
because our days upon earth are a shadow. 

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that 
they are vanity. 

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise^ 
that they are vain. 

The wisdom of this world is foolishness with 
God. 



CHAP. XXXVI. 

FRAUD, OPPRESSION, AND VIOLENCE. 

Defraud not. Ye shall not deal falsely. 

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither 
rob him. 

If thou lend money to any of my people, thoi^r 
shalt not lay upon him usury. 



120 COMPENDIUM 

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth 
his substance, he shall gather it for him that will 
pity the poor. 

Better is a little with righteousness than great 
revenues without right. 

He that getteth riches and not by right, shall 
leave them in the midst of his days, and at his 
end shall be a fool. 

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the be- 
ginning ; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. 

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a 
vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek deathl 

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer : but 
when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by un- 
righteousness. 

Woe to him that increaseth that which is not 
his ! 

Ye shall not oppress one another. 

If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest 
aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not op- 
press one another. 

Oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the 
stranger, nor the poor. 

He that oppresseth the poor repraacheth his 
Maker : hut he that honoureth him hath mercy 
on the poor. 

Rob not the poor because he is poor : neither 
oppress the afflicted in the gate : for the Lord 
will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those 
that spoiled them. The Lord executeth right- 
eousness and judgment for all that are oppres- 
sed. 

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless 
child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they 
cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry, 



OF THE BIBLE. 121 

What mean ye that ye grind the faces of the 
poor ? 

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his 
riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely 
come to want. 

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he 
take away thy bed from under thee ? 

I will be a swift witness against those that 
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and 
the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger 
from his right, saith the Lord of hosts. 

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain 
in robbery. 

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none 
of his ways. 

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work 
evil upon their beds ! when the morning is light 
they practice it, because it is in the power of 
their hand. And they covet fields, and take them 
by violence ; and houses, and take them away : 
so they oppress a man and his house, even a 
man and his heritage. 

Do violence to no man. Let them turn every 
one from the violence that is in their hands. 

The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful 
man. The wicked and him that love th violence 
his soul hateth. 

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, 
and establisheth a city by iniquity ! 

A man that doeth violence to the blood of any 
person shall flee to the pit ; let no man stay him. 

Surely your blood of your lives will I require : 
at the hand of every beast will I require it : and at 
the hand of man, at the hand of every man's bro- 
ther, will 1 require the life of man. Whoso shed- 
deth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, 
11 



122 COMPENDIUM 

CHAP. XXXVII. 

FRIENDSHIP. 

Make sure thy friend. 

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is 
born for adversity. 

Thine own friend, and thy fathers friend, for- 
sake not. 

A man that hath friends must shew himself 
friendly ; and there is a friend that sticketh 
closer than a brother. 

To him that is afflicted, pity should be shewed 
from his friend. 

Have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the 
hand of God hath touched me. 

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man 
lay down his life for his friends. 

Make no friendship with an angry man. 

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice- 
rising up early in the morning, it shall be count- 
ed a curse to him. 

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even 
the eyes of his children shall faiL 

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour t 
but the rich hath many friends. 

Wealth maketh many friends : but the poor is 
separated from his neighbour. 

My familiar friends have forgotten me. All 
my inward friends abhorred me : and they whom 
1 loved are turned against me. 

Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, 
which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel 
against me. 

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not 
depart from his house. 



OF THE BIBLE. 123 

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence 
in a guide. It is better to trust in the Lord than 
to put confidence in man. 

Know ye not that the friendship of the world 
is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will 
be a friend of the world is the enemy of God, 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 

FUTURE HAPPINESS AND MISERY. 

There remaineth a rest to the people of God. 
Let us labour to enter into that rest. 

Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the 
gate, and broad is the way , that leadeth to destruc- 
tion, and many there be that go in thereat : because 
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which 
ieadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death 
of his saints. 

Blessed are the dead which die in the Ltfrd 
from henceforth ; yea saith the Spirit, that they 
may rest from their labours, and their works do 
follow them. 

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my 
course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there 
is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which 
the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at 
that day : and not to me only, but unto all them 
also that love his appearing. 

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh 
uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppres- 
sions, that shaketh his hands from holding of 
bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of 
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; he 
shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall 



124 COMPENDIUM 

be the munitions of rocks : bread 9hall be given 
him ; his waters shall be sure. 

In my Father's house are many mansions* 
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have 
entered into the heart of man, the things which 
God hath prepared for them that love him. 

In thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right 
hand there are pleasures for evermore. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant 
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope 
hy the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 
to an inheritance incorruptible, undefined, and 
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. 

These are they which came out of great tribu- 
lation, and have washed their robes, and made 
them white in the blood of the Lamb. There- 
fore are they before the throne ot God, and serve 
him day and night in his temple : and he that 
sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
more ; neither shall the sun light on them, nor 
any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst 
of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them 
unto living fountains of waters : and God shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes. 

There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, neither shall their be any more pain. 

God will render to every man according to 
his deeds 5 to them who, by patient continuance 
in well doing, seek for glory, and honour, and 
immortality, eternal life ; but unto them that are 
contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey 
unrighteousness, indignation and wr^thj tribu- 
lation and anguish upon every soul of man that 
doeth evil. 



OF THE BIBLE, 125 

The time is come, that judgment must begin 
at the house of God : ami if it iirst begin at us, 
what shall the end be of them that obey not the 
gospel of God ? If the righteous scarcely be saved, 
where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ? 

Our God is a consuming fire. It is a fearful 
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 

The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness 
hath surprised the hvpocrites. Who among us 
shall dwell with the devouring fire ? who among 
us shall dwell with everlasting burnings ? 

What part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all 
the nations that forget God* 

The axe is laid unto the root of the trees : 
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good 
fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. 

Whosoever was not found written in the book 
of life was cast into the lake of fire. 

He will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather 
his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up 
the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched. The smoke of their torment ascend- 
eth up for ever and ever. 

There was a certain rich man, which was cloth- 
ed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptu- 
ously every day. And there was a certain beg- 
gar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, 
full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the 
crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: 
moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores, 
And it came to pass, (hat the beggar died, and 
was can led by the angels into Abraham's bosom 
in also died, and was buried; and in 
ed up his eyes, being in torment?; anjd 



126 COMPENDIUM 

seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bo- 
som. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, 
have mercy on me ; and send Lazarus, that he 
may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool 
my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. 

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in 
thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and 
likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is com- 
forted, and thou art tormented. And besides all 
this, between us and you there is agreatgulf fixed; 
so that they which would pass from hence to you 
cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would 
come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee 
therefore, father, that thou wouldst send him to 
my father's house : for I have five brethren ; that 
he may testify unto them, lest they also should 
come into this place of torment. Abraham saith 
unto him, They have Moses and the prophets ; let 
them hear them. And he said, Nay, father A bra* 
ham : but if one went unto them from the dead, 
they will repent. And he said unto him, If they 
hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will 
they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. 



CHAP. XXXIX. 

GODLINESS. 

Exercise thyself unto godliness. 

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having 
promise of the life that now is, and oi that vvhicli 
is to come. 

Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our con- 
science, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, 
not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of Gud , 
T e have had our conversation in the world. 



OF THE BIBLE. l£f 

I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God, 
vhat ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, 
holy, acceptable unto God which is your reason- 
able service. 

Ye shall be holy ; for I the Lord your God am 
holy. As he which hath called you is holy, so be 
ye holy in all manner of conversation. Yield your 
members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, 
without which no man shall see the Lord. 

The Lord hath set a part him that is godly for 
himself. 

Blegsed is the man that walketh not in the 
counsel of the ungodly, nor standethin the way 
of sinners, nor sltteth in the seat of the scornful : 
but his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in 
his law doth he meditate day and night. And 
he shail be like a tree planted by the rivers of 
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season : 
Ms leaf also shall not wither: and whatsoever he 
doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so : 
but are like the chaff which the wind driveth 
away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand 
in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation 
of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way 
of the righteous : but the way of the ungodly shall 
perish. 

An ungodly mandiggethup evil: and in his 
lips there is a burning fire. 

The wrath of God is revealed from heaver, 
against ail ungodliness and unrighteousness of 
men. 

>ld, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of 

i. to execute judgment upon all, and to 

convince ail that are ungodly among them of all 

i dlv O.^dd^ which they have ungodly 



128 COMPENDIUM 

committed, and of all their hard speeches which 
ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 

The heavens and the earth are kept in store, 
reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment 
and perdition of ungodly men. 

The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, 
hath appeared to all men, teaching us that deny- 
ing ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should 
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this pres- 
ent world ; looking for that blessed hope, and 
the glorious appearing of the great God and our 
Saviour Jesus Christ. 



CHAR XL. 

GOVERNMENT OF THE THOUGHTS, LANGUAGE, 
AND PASSIONS. 

Keep thy heart with all diligence ; for out of 
it are the issues of life. 

How can ye, being evil, speak good things ! 
for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh. A good man, out of the good treasure 
of the heart, bringeth forth good things; and an 
evil man, out of the evil treasure, bringeth forth 
evil things. 

Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, 
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, 
blasphemies. 

Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts r 

Let none of you imagine evil in vjour hearts 
against his neighbour. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts. 

If thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand 
thy mouth. 



OF THE BIBLE. 129 

The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : it is 
an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. 

lie that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life. 
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth 
his soul from troubles. 

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin. 

In many things we offend all. If any man 
offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, 
and able also to bridle the whole body. 

If any man among you seem to be religious, 
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his 
own heart, this man's religion is vain. 

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of 
your mouth. 

He that will love life, and see -good days, let 
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that 
they speak no guile. 

Put away from thee a froward mouth ? and per- 
verse lips put far from thee. ^ 

In the multitude of words there wanteth not 
sin : but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words ? 
there is more hope of a fool than of him. 

A fool uttereth all his mind ; but a wise man 
keepeth it in till afterwards. 

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. 

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishmentc 

Whosoever is angry with his brother without a 
cause shall be in danger of the judgment. 

Grievous words stir up anger. Let every man 
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. 

He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly. 

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger 
restcta in the bosom of fools. Be ye angry and sin 
not i let not the sun go down upon thy wrath. 



130 COMPENDIUM 

With a furious man thou shalt not go. 

He that is slow to wrath is of great understand- 
ing. 

He that is slow to anger is better than the 
mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that 
taketh a city. 

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like 
•a city that is broken down, and without walls. 

Let your moderation be known unto all men* 
The Lord is at hand. 

The end of all things is at hand ; be ye there- 
fore sober. 

Put off anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy 
communication out of your mouth. 

Every idle word that men shall speak, they 
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by 
thy words thou shalt be condemned 

Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Let the 
words of my mouth, and the meditation of my 
heart, be acceptable' in thy sight, Lord, my 
strength, and my Redeemer. 

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try 
me, and know my thoughts : and see if there be 
any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way 
everlasting. 

CHAP. XLI. 

GRACE. 

The grace of God bringeth salvation. 

We believe that, through the grace of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. 

By the holy Spirit of God ye are sealed unto 
the day of redemption. 



OF THE BIBLE. 131 

By grace are ye 9aved through faith : and that 
not of yourselves ; it is the girt of God. Not of 
works, lest any man should boast. For we are 
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto 
good works, which God hath before ordained that 
we should walk in them. 

As many as were ordained to eternal life be- 
lieved. 

We ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobe- 
dient, decieved, serving divers lusts, and pleas- 
ures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hat- 
ing one another. But after that the kindness and 
love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 
not by works of righteousness, which we have 
done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by 
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the 
Holy Ghost; which was shed on us abundantly, 
through Jesus Christ our Saviour: that being 
justified by his grace, we should be made heirs 
according to the hope of eternal life. 

Be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel 
according to the power of God; who hath saved 
us, and called us with an holy calling, not ac- 
cording to our works, but according to his own 
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ 
Jesus before the world began. 

To sit on my right hand, and on my left hand, 
is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them 
for whom it is prepared. 

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the 
kingdom prepared for you, from the foundation .of 
the world. 

Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. By 

the grace of God I am what I am. Unto every 

one of us is given grace according to the measure 

of the gift of Christ. The gift of God is eternal 

ite, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 



132 COMPENDIUM 

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus 
Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, 
and the acknowledging of the truth which is after 
godliness; in hope of eternal life, which God, 
that cannot lie, promised before the world be- 
gan, but hath in due times manifested his word 
through preaching, which is committed unto 
me according to the commandment of God our 
Saviour; to Titus, mine own son after the 
common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from 
God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our 
Saviour. 

Paul, called to* be an apostle of Jesus Christ, 
through the will of God, and Sosthenes our 
brother, unto the church of God which is at 
Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ 
Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every 
place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our 
Lord, both theirs and ours: Grace be unto you ? 
and peace, from God our Father, and from the 
Lord Jesus Christ. 

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to tlier 
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Gala- 
tia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bythinia, elect ac- 
cording to the foreknowledge of God the Father* 
through the sajictification of the Spirit, until 
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus 
Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multi- 
plied. 

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus 
Christ, to them that have obtained like precious 
faith with us throngh the righteousness of God 
and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Grace and peace 
be multiplied unto you through the knowledge ot 
God, and of Jesus our Lord, according &3 his 
divine power has given unto us all things that 
pertain unto life and godliness, through the 



OF THE BIBLE. 133 

knowledge of him that hath called us unto glory 
antl virtue. 

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother 
of James, to them that are sanctified by God 
the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and 
called : Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be 
multiplied. 

Many are called, but few are chosen. 

I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious,- 
and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. 

I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, 
and I will have compassion on whom I will have 
compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, 
nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth 
mercy. 

Neither is he that planteth any thing, neither 
he that watereth : but God that giveth the in- 
crease. 

No man can come unto me, except it were 
given unto him of my Father. 

This is the Father's will which hath sent me, 
that of all which he hath given me I should lose 
nothing, but should raise it up again at the last 
day. 

Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that 
he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast 
given him. 

God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to 
obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Father hath made us meet to be partakers 
of the inheritance of the saints in light. 

I endure all things for the elect's sake, that 
they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ 
Jesus, with eternal glory. 

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the 
grace of God which is given you bv Jesus Christ, 
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God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the 
fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord. Ye 
see your calling, brethren, how that not many 
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not 
many noble, are called. 

God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus 
Christ. 

For the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he 
hath shortened the days. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spir- 
itual blessings in heavenly places in Christ : ac- 
cording as he hath chosen us in him before the 
foundation of the world, that we should be holy 
and without blame before him in love: having 
predestinated us unto the adoption of children 
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of 
his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in 
the beloved : in whom we have redemption 
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, accor- 
ding to the riches of his grace ; wherein he hath 
abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence ; 
having made known unto us the mystery of his 
will, according to his good pleasure which he 
hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensa- 
tion of the fulness of times, he might gather to- 
gether in one all things in Christ, both which are 
in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him : 
in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, 
being predestinated according to the purpose of 
him who worketh all things after the counsel of 
his own will $ that we should be to the praise of 
his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 

\Voiic out your own salvation with fear and 
trembling. For it is God which worketh in you 
both to will and do of his good pleasure. 



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The Lord knoweth them that are his. 
God hath not cast away his people which he 
foreknew. There is a remnant according to the 
election of grace. And if by grace, then it is 
no more of works : otherwise grace is no more 
grace. 

We know that all things work together for 
good to them that love God, to them who are the 
called according to his purpose. For whom he 
did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be 
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 
be the first born among many brethren. More- 
over, whom he did predestinate, tbem he also 
called: and whom he called, them he also justi- 
fied : and whom he justified, them he also glori- 
fied. 

We are bound to give thanks alway to God for 
you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God 
hath in the beginning chosen you to salvation 
through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of 
the truth : whereunto he called you by our gos- 
pel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the 
Lamb shall overcome them : for he is Lord of 
lords, and King of kings : and they that are with 
him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling 
and election sure ; for if ye do these things ye 
shall never fall : for so an entrance shall be min- 
istered unto you abundantly into the everlasting 
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of 
God. I commend you to God, and to the word 
of his grace. 

The God of all grace, who hath called us unto 
his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye 



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have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish* 
strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and 
dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 



CHAP. XLH. 

HOSPITALITY, 

Love ye the stranger. The stranger that 
dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born 
among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. 

The stranger did not lodge in the street ; but 
I opened my doors to the traveller. 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers ; for 
thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

Be given to hospitality. Use hospitality one 
to another without grudging. 

Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, 
lo, three men stood by him : and, when he saw 
them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, 
and bowed himself toward the ground, and said, 
let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and 
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the 
tree; and I wall fetch a morsel of bread, and 
comfort ye your hearts. And he took butter 
and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and 
set it before them ; and he stood by them under 
the tree, and they did eat. 

Jesus said to him that bade him, When thou 
makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, 
nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy 
jrich neighbours ; lest thy also bid thee again, 
and a recompense be made thee. But when thou 
makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the 
lame, the blind : and thou shalt be blessed ; for 
they cannot recompense thee ; for thou shall be 
recompensed at the resurrection of the just 



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CHAP. XLIII. 

HUMILITY. 

Blessed are the poor in spirit : for their 's is 
the kingdom of heaven. 

Before honour is humility. By humility, and the 
fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. 

If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your 
feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 
For I have given you an example, that ye should 
(Jo as I have done to you. 

Mind not high things, but condescend to men 
of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 

Cease from thine own wisdom. The Almighty 
respecteth not any that are wise of heart. Seest 
thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is 
more hope of a fool than of him. 

Let no man deceive himself; if any man among 
you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him be- 
come a fool that he may be wise. 

If any man think he knoweth any thing, he 
knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know. 

If a man think himself to be something, when 
he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 

I say, through the grace given unto me, to every 
man that is among you, not to think of himself 
more highly than he ought to think ; but to think 
soberly, according as God hath dealt to every 
man the measure of faith. 

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Woe unto 
them that are wise in their own eyes^ and prudent 
in their own sight ! 

The haughty shall be humbled. A man's pride 
shall bring him low : but honour shall uphold the 
humble in spirit. 



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Thou shalt no more be haughty. The loftiness 
of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness 
of men shall be made low. 

Be not proud. Pride goeth before destruction, 
and an haughty spirit before a fall. 

Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the 
loAvly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. 

Talk no more exceeding proudly ; let not 
arrogancy come out of your mouth. Pride and 
arrogancy do I hate. I will cause the arrogancy 
of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haugh- 
tiness of the terrible. 

Lean not to thine own understanding. He that 
trusteth in his own heart is a fool. 

Most men will proclaim every one his own 
goodness : but a faithful man who can find ? 

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own 
glory. Let another man praise thee, and not 
thine own mouth. 

Not he that commendeth himself is approved, 
but whom the Lord commendeth. 

Be not high-minded. Charge them that are 
rich in this world, that they be not high-minded. 

The rich man is wise in his own conceit : but 
the poor that hath understanding searcheth him 
out. 

Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory 
in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory 
in his might, let not the rich man glory in his 
riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that 
he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the 
Lord, which exercise loving kindness, judgment, 
and righteousness, in the earth : for in these 
things I delight, saith the Lord. 

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world 
oufouad the wise: and God hath chosen the 



OF THE BIBLE. 139 

weak things of the world to confound the things 
which are mighty ; and base things of the world, 
and things which are despised, hath God chosen, 
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought 
things that are : that no flesh should glory in his 
presence. 

Vain man would be wise. Remove far from 

me vanity. Let us not be desirous of vain glory. 

Let nothing be done through strife or vain 

glory ; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem 

others better than themselves. 

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neigh- 
bour. He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth. 
Who maketh thee to differ from another ? and 
what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? 

Whosoever will be chief among you, let him 
be your servant. 

Ye younger, submit yourselves unfo the either. 
Yea. all of you be subject one to another, and be 
clothed with humility : for God resisteth the 
proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble 
yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of 
God, that he may exalt you in due time. 

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, 
and he shall lift you up. He shall save the hum- 
ble person. 

Surely he scorn etli the scorners : but he giveth 
grace unto the lowly. 

Whosoever shall humble himself as this little 
child, the same is greatest in the kingdom oi 
heaven. 

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom 
shall die with you. 

I bear them record, that they have a zeal of 
God, but not according to knowledge. For they, 
Seing ignorant of God's righteousness, and going 



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about to establish, their own righteousness, have 
not submitted themselves unto the righteousness 
of God. 

There is a generation that are pure in their 
own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthi- 
ness. 

Stand by thyself, come not near tp me ; for I 
am holier than thou. 

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our- 
selves, and the truth is not in us. 

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall con- 
demn me: if I say I am perfect, that shall also 
prove me perverse. 

Ye are they which justify yourselves before 
men : but God knoweth your hearts. 

Jesus spake this parable unto certain which 
trusted in themselves that they were righteous, 
and despised others. Two men went up into the 
temple to pray 5 the one a Pharisee, and the other 
a publican. The Pharisee stood, and prayed 
thus with himself, God, I thank thee that 1 am 
not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adul- 
terers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in 
the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And 
the* publican, standing afar off, would not lift up 
so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote upon 
his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sin- 
ner, I tell you this man went down to his house 
justified rather than the other ; for every one that 
exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that 
humbleth himself shall he exalted. 

In thoughts from the visions of night, when 
deep sleep falleth on me, fear came upon me, and 
trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 
Then a spirit parsed before my face ; the hair of 
my flesh stood up : it stood still, but 1 could not 



OF THE BIBLE. 141 

discern the form thereof : an image was before 
mine eyes; there was silence, and 1 heard a voice, 
saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? 
Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? 

1111 L 

CHAP. XLIV. 

HYPOCRISY, 

Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, 
which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing cover- 
ed, that shall not be revealed \ neither hid, that 
shall not be known. 

The hypocrite's hope shall perish. The con- 
gregation of hypocrites shall be desolate. What 
is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gain- 
ed, when God taketh away his soul ? 

An hypocrite shall not come before him. The 
hypocrites in heart heap up wrath. 

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his 
neighbour. 

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and 
the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. 

With a double heart do they speak : which 
^speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is 
in their hearts. With their mouth they shew 
much love, but their heart goetli after their cov- 
etousness. 

This people draweth nigh unto me with their 
mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but 
their heart is far from me. 

They profess that they know God, but in works 
they deny him: having'the form of godliness but 
denying the power thereof. 

Thou, which teachest another, teachest thou 
Out thyself ? thou that preachest a man should 



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not steal, dost thou steal ? thou that sayest a man 
should not commit adultery, dost thou commit 
adultery ? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou 
commit sacrilege ? thou that makest thy boast of 
the law, through breaking the law dishonourest 
thou God ? 

When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the 
hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in 
the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, 
that they may be seen of men. Verily, I say 
unto you, They have have their reward. But thou, 
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet; and 
when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, 
which is in secret, and thy Father, which seeth 
in secret, shall reward thee openly. 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven 
against men : for ye neither go in yourselves, 
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! For ye devour widow's houses, and for a 
pretence make long prayers : therefore ye sfyall 
receive the greater damnation. 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one 
proselyte : and when he is made, ye make him 
two fold more the child of hell than yourselves. 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and 
cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters 
of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these 
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other 
undone. 

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye make clean the outside of the cup 
and of the platter, but within they are full of 
extortion and excess. 



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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, 
which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are 
within full of dead men's bones, and of all un- 
cleanness. 

Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! because ye build the tombs of the pro- 
phets, and garnish the sepulchres of the right- 
eous, and say, If we had been in the days of our 
fathers, we would not have been partakers with 
them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore 
be ye witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the 
children of them which killed the prophets. Fill 
ye up the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, 
ye generation of vipers ! how can ye escape the 
damnation of hell ? 



CHAP. XLV. 

IDOLATRY. 

Flee from idolatry. Turn ye not unto idols, 
nor make to yourselves molten gods : I am the 
Lord your God. 

Confounded be all they that serve graven im- 
ages, that boast themselves of idols. 

Thou shalt no more worship the work of thine 
hands. What agreement hath the temple of God 
with idols ? 

We know that an idol is nothing in the world, 
and that there is none other God but one. We 
write unto them that they abstain from pollutions 
of idols ? 

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 
Covetousness is idolatry. Charge them that are 
rich in thrs world, that they be not high minded, 



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nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living 
God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. 

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's per- 
son, neither let me give flattering titles unto 
man. 

They love greetings in the markets, and to be 
called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi, But be not ye called 
Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ ; and 
all ye are brethren. 

Ye receive honour one of another, and seek not 
the honour that cometh from God only ? 

They loved the praise of men more than the 
praise of God. Let no man glory in men. He 
that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 

As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him> 
and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. 
But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up 3 I my- 
self also am a man. 

Men shall be lovers of pleasures more than 
lovers of God. 

We preach unto you that ye should turn from 
these vanities unto the living God. 

Repent and turn yourselves from your idols. 

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul. 

Love not the worlds neither the things that are 
in the world- If any man love the world, the 
love of the Father is not in him. 

He that loveth father or mother more than 
me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth 
son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of 
me. 

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts 
by the Holy Ghost. 

All flesh shall come to worship before me, 
saith the Lord.. 



OF THE BIBLE. 145 

At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. 
Let all the angels of God worship him. 

We worship God in the Spirit. 

Jesus said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art 
careful and troubled about many things ; but 
one tiling is needful ; and Mary hath chosen 
that good part, which shall not be taken away 
from her. 

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness 5 and all these things shall be 
added unto you. 

Set your affection on things ab*0ve, not oh 
things on the earth. 



CHAP. XLVI. 

IMMORTALITY, RESURRECTION, AND FUTURE 
JUDGMENT. 

There is a spirit in man : and the inspiration 
of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 

The dust shall return to the earth as it was ; 
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 

God will redeem my soul from the powfer of 
the grave. 

Though after my skin worms destroy thfe 
body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. 

If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised j 
and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; 
ye are yet in your sins. 

Since by man came death by man came also 
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 

Why should it be thought a thing incredibly 
with you, that God should raise the dead ? 

Some man will say. How are the dead raiseu 
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146 COMPENDIUM 

up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou 
fool, that which thou so west is not quickened, 
except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou 
sovvest not that body that shall be, but bare grain , 
it may chance of wheat, or some other grain : but 
God giveth,it a body, and to every seed his own 
body. All flesh is not the same flesh : but there 
is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, 
another of fishes, and another of birds. There 
are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial : 
but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory 
of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory 
of the sun, and another glory of the moon, anoth- 
er glory of the stars : for one star diftereth from 
another star in glory. So also is the resurrec- 
tion of the dead . It is sown in corruption ; it is 
raised in incorruption : it is sown in dishonour ; 
it is raised in glory : it is sown in weakness ; it 
is raised in power : it is sown a natural body ; it 
is raised a spiritual body. 

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, 
and with the trump of God : and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first. 

The Son of man shall come in the glory of his 
Father with his angels ; and then he shall reward 
every man according to his works. 

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, 'and 
some to shame and everlasting contempt. 

The hour is coming in which all that are in 
the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come 
forth : they that have done good, unto the resur- 
ifection of life : and they that have done evil, 
into the resurrection of damnation. 

We shall all be changed in a moment, in the 



OF THE BIBLE. 147 

twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised 
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this 
corruptible must put on incorraption, and thi* 
mortal must put on immortality, then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death 
is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is 
thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? 
Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Every man shall bear his own burden. He 
that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap 
corruption : but he that soweth to the spirit, shall 
of the spirit reap life everlasting. 

I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he 
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 

Behold, he cometh with clouds : and every eye 
shall see him, and they also which pierced him : 
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because 
of him. Even so, Amen. 

The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall 
not give her light ; and the stars of heaven shall 
fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be 
shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man 
coming in the clouds, with great power and 
glory. And then shall he send his angels, and 
shall gather together his elect from the four 
Avinds, from the uttermost part of the earth to 
the. uttermost part of heaven. 

The day of the Lord will come as a thief in 
the night ; in which the heavens shall pass away 
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works 
that are therein shall be burned up Seeing then, 
that all these things shall be dissolved, what 
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy 



148 COMPENDIUM 

conversation and godliness, looking for and hast- 
ing unto the coming of the day of God, wherein 
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nev- 
ertheless we, according to his promise, look for 
new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwellctU 
righteousness. 

God hath appointed a day in which he will 
judge the world in righteousness. 

God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. 
With righteousness shall he judge the world, and 
the people with equity, We shall all stand be- 
fore the judgment seat of Christ. 

Every one of us shall give account of himself 
to God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the 
hands of the living God. 

The Son of man shall oome in the glory of his 
Father with his angels ; and then he shall reward 
every man according to his works. 

We must all appear before the judgment seat 
of Christ ; that every one may receive the things 
done in his body, according to that he hath done, 
whether it be good or bad. 

The work of a man shall God render unto him, 
and cause every man to find according to his 
ways. 

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not 
inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : 
neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, 
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with 
mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk- 
ards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit 
the kingdom of God. 

Every idle word that men shall speak, they 
shall give account thereof in the day of judg- 
ment. 



OF THE BIBLE. 149 

He that believeth and is baptized, shall be sav- 
ed : but he that believeth not shall be damned. 

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, 
Have we not prophecied in thy name ? And in 
thy name have cast out devils ? And in thy name 
done many wonderful works ? And then will 1 
profess unto them, I never knew you : depart 
from me, ye that work iniquity. 

1 saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God : and the books were opened 5 and another 
book was opened, which is the book of life : and 
the dead were judged out of those things which 
were written in the books, according to then 
works. And the sea gave up the dead which 
were in it ; and death and hell delivered up the 
dead which were in them : and they were judged 
every man according to their works. And death 
and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 

When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, 
and all the holy angels with him, then shall he 
sit upon the throne of his glory : and before him 
shall be gathered all nations ; and he shall sepa- 
rate them one from another, as a shepherd divid- 
eth his sheep from the goats : and he shall set the 
sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 
Then shall the king say unto them, on his right 
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the 
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of 
the world. For I was hungry, and ye gave me 
meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : i 
was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and 
ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : 
I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then 
^hall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, 
when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee r or 
* hirst y, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee 
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i50 COMPENDIUM 

a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and cloth- 
ed thee ? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison^ 
and came unto thee ? And the King shall answer 
and say unto them, Verily, I say unto you, in as 
much as ye have done it unto one of the least of 
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then 
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, De- 
part from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
prepared for the devil and his angels : for I was 
hungry, and ye gave me no meat : I was thirsty, 
and ye gave me no drink : I was a stranger, and 
ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not : 
sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then 
shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw 
we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or na- 
ked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister 
unto thee ? Then shall he answer them, saying, 
Verily, I say unto you, in as much as ye did it 
not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 
And these shall go away into everlasting punish- 
ment : but the righteous into life eternal. 



CHAP. XLVII. 

INDUSTRY. 

Be not slothful in business. 

When we were with you, this we commanded 
you, that if any man would not work, neither 
should he eat. 

We beseech you, brethren, that ye study to do 
your own business, and to work with your own 
hands, as we commanded you. 

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of 
Dread : but he that followeth after vain persons 
ihall have poverty enough. 



OF THE BIBLE. 151 

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with 
bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void 
of understanding. 

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy 
flocks, and look well to thy herds. 

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack 
hand : but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 

The thoughts' of the diligent tend only to plen- 
teousness ; but of every one that is hasty only 
to want. 

Sldthfulnejss casteth into a deep sleep ; and 
an idle soul shall suffer hunger. 

By much slothfulness the building cfecayeth 5 
and through idleness of the hands the house drop- 
peth through. 

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty ; 
open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with 
bread. Go to the ant thou sluggard ; consider 
her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, 
overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the 
summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest, 
How long wilt thou sleep, sluggard? when 
wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little 
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the 
hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one 
that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to tlue 
eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. 

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath 
nothing : but the soul of the diligent shall be 
made tat. 

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the 
cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have 
nothing 

He that gathqreth in summer is a wise son ; 



152 COMPENDIUM 

but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that 
causeth shame. 

This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, 
pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idle- 
ness was in her, and in her daughters. 

They learn to be idle, wandering about from 
house to house $ and not only idle, but tattlers 
also, and busy bodies. 

These hands have ministered unto my neces- 
sities, and to them that are with me. I have 
shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye 
ought to support the weak. 

We behaved not ourselves disorderly among 
you ; neither did we eat any man's bread for 
nought ; but wrought with labour and travail 
night and day, that we might not be chargeable 
to any of you. 

We hear that there are some which walk among 
you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy 
bodies. Now them that are such we command 
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with 
quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 

Let him that stole steal no more : but rather 
let him labour, working with his hands the thing 
which is good ? that he may have to give to him 
that needeth. 

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, wheth- 
er he eat little or much : but the abundance of 
the rich will not sutler him to sleep. 

The slothful man roasteth not that which he 
took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent 
man is precious. 

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished : 
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. 

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule ; but 
the slothful shall be under ^ i 



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man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not 
so much as bring it to his mouth again. 

As the door turneth upon its hinges ; so doth 
the slothful upon his bed. 

The slothful man saith, There is a lion with- 
out, I shall be slain in the streets. 

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his 
hands refuse to labour. 

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of 
thorns. 

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the 
vineyard of the man void of understanding. And 
lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles 
had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall 
thereof was broken down. Then I saw and consid- 
ered it well : 1 looked upon it, and received in* 
struction. 

Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul dili- 
gently. 

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of 
the Lord your God. 

Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy 
children. 

Be diligent that ye may be found of him in 
peace, without spot, and blameless. 

We desire that every one of you do shew tke 
same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto 
the end : that ye be not slothful, but followers of 
them- who through faith and patience inherit the 
promises. 

I must work the works of him that sent me while 
it is day : the night cometh when no man can work. 

"Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it 
with thy might ; for there is no work, nor device* 
nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whith- 
er thou goest, 



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CHAP. XLVIIL 

INTEGRITY. 

The integrity of the upright shall guide them. 
Let integrity and uprightness preserve thee. 

Till I die I will not remove mine integrity 
from me. My righteousness I will hold fast, and 
will not let it go : my heart shall not reproach 
me so long as I live. 

The way of the just is uprightness. The just 
man walketh in his integrity $ his children are 
blessed after him. 

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, 
than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. 

Better is the poor that walketh in his upright- 
ness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though 
lie be rich. 

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. 

A man of understanding walketh uprightly. 
The generation of the upright shall be blessed. 

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the 
darkness. All the upright in heart shall glory. 

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver 
them. 

The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 

The upright shall have good things in posses- 
sion. 

The Lord God is a sun and shield : the Lord 
will give grace and glory ; no good thing will he 
withhold from them that walk uprightly. 

The prayer of the upright is his delight. Such 
as are upright in their way are his delight. 

Let us walk honestly as in the day ; not in 
rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and 
wantonness, not in strife and envying. 



OP THE BIBLE. 155 

I pray God that ye do no evil ; not that we 
should appear approved, but that ye should do 
that which is honest : having your conversation 
honest among the Gentiles : providing for honest 
things not only in the sight of the Lord, but also 
in the si«;ht of men. 



CHAP. XLIX. 

JUSTICE VXD IMPARTIALITY. 

Do justice. Blessed is the man that doeth this , 
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow. 

Exact no more than that which is appointed 
you. Render to all their dues. Owe no man 
any thing but to love one another. 

What doth the Lord require of thee, but to da 
Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with 
thy God ? 

• To do justice and judgment is more accepta- 
ble to the Lord than sacrifice. 

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in weight or in 
measure ; but thou shalt have a perfect and just 
weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have. 

Just balances shall ye have. A false balance 
is abomination to the Lord ; but a just weight is 
his delight. 

Execute true judgment. Ye shall do no un- 
righteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect 
the person of the poor, nor honour the person of 
the mighty : but in righteousness shalt thou judge 
thy neighbour. 

If there be a controversy between men, and 
they come unto judgment, that the judges may 
judge them ; then they shall justify the righteous* 
and condemn the wicked. 



156 COMPENDIUM 

He that justi fie th the wicked, and he that con- 
demneth the just, even they both are abomination 
to the Lord. 

It is not good to have respect of persons in 
judgment. 

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; 
but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; 
ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for 
the judgment is God's : and the cause that is 
too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will 
hear. it. 

Thou shalt not wrest judgment ; thou shalt not 
respect persons, neither take a gift : for a gift 
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the 
words of the righteous. 

A wicked man taketh the gift out of the bosom 
to pervert the ways of judgment. The judge 
asketh for a reward. 

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept 
the persons of the wicked ? Defend the poor 
and fatherless : do justice to the afflicted and 
needy. Deliver the poor and needy : rid them 
out of the hand of the wicked. 

The cause which I knew not I searched out. 

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead 
the cause of the poor and needy. 

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words 
without knowledge ? 

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor 
in his cause : neither shalt thou speak in a cause^ 
to decline after many to wrest judgment. 

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just : 
but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. 

The path of the just is as the shining light, that 
shineth more and more unto the perfect day 

There shall no evil happen, to the just. 



OF THE BIBLE. 157 

The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the 
just. 

Blessings are upon the head of the just. The 
Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. The 
memory of the just is blessed. 

If a man be just, and do that which is lawful 
and right, and hath not oppressed any, but hath 
restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled 
none by violence, hath given his bread to the 
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a gar- 
ment ; he that hath not given forth upon usury, 
that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath 
executed true judgment between man and man, 
hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my 
judgments, to deal truly: he is just, he shall 
surely live saith the Lord God. 

The hope of unjust men perisheth. 

I charge thee that thou observe these things 
without preferring one before another, doing 
nothing by partiality. 

To have respect of persons is not good. 

If there come into your assembly a man with 
a gold ring in goodly apparel, and there come in 
also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have 
respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and 
say unto him. Sit thou here in a good place ; and 
say to the poor, stand thou there, or sit here 
under my footstool : are ye not then partial in 
yourselves ? Ye have despised the poor. If ye 
bave respect to persons, ye commit sin. 

God will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly 
accept persons. 

The Father, without respect of persons judg- 
eth according to every man's work. In every 
nation he that feareth him, and worketh right- 
^li^rr ;*«-. is accepted by him. 
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158 COMPENDIUM 

CHAP. L. 

KINGDOM AND CHURCH OF OUR X.ORD JESUS CHRIS To 

The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his 
hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul* 
and shall be satisfied. 

It shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established 
in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted 
above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto 
it. And many people shall go and say. Come ye? 
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to 
the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach. 
us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: 
for out of Zion shall go forth the taw, and the 
word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall 
judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many 
people ; and they shall beat their swords into 
ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : 
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nei- 
ther shall they learn war any more. 

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leop- 
ard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the 
young lion and the fatling together ; and a little 
child shall lead them. And the cow and the beat 
shall feed : their young ones shall lie down togeth- 
er, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the 
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and 
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cocka- 
trice den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all 
my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the 
knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea 

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be 
glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and 
blossom as the rose. 



OF THE BIBLE. 159 

Prav for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall 
prosper that love thee. Peacebe within thy walls, 
and prosperity within thy palaces, tor my 
brethren and companions' sakes, 1 will now say, 
Peace be within thee. . 

No weapon that is formed against thee shal 

P Ts P uy unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon 
this rock I will build my church; and the gates- 
of hell shall not prevail against it. 

CHAP. LI. 

LORD'S SUPPEIl. 

The first day of the feast of unleavened bread, 
the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, 
Where wilt thou that we prepare tor thee to eat 
the passover ? And he said, Go into the city to 
such a man, and say unto him, The master saitn, 
my time is at hand ; I will keep the passover at 
thy house with my disciples. And the disciples 
did as Jesus had appointed them ; and they made 
ready the passover. Now when the even was 
come, he sat down with the twelve. And as 
they did eat, he said, Verily, I say unto you, 
that one of you shall betray me. And they were 
exceeding sorrowful, and began every one oi 
them to say unto him, Lord, is it I ? And he an- 
swered and said, He that dippeth his hand with 
me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The 
Son of man goeth, as it is written of him ; but 
woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is 
betraypd ! It had been good for that man if he 
had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed 
him, answered, and said, Master, is it I P He.s.aiu 



160 COMPENDIUM 

unto hint thou hast said. And as they were eat- 
ing, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake 
it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, 
eat ; this is my body. And he took the cup, and 
gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink 
ye all of it ; for this is my blood of the new tes- 
tament, which is shed for many for the remission 
of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink 
henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day 
when I drink it new with you in my Father's 
kingdom. And when they had sung an hymn, 
they went out into the mount of Olives. 

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not 
the communion of the blood of Christ ? The 
bread which we break, is it not the communion 
of the body of Christ ? 

When ye come together into one place, this 
is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating 
every one taketh before other his own supper: 
and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 
What ? have ye not houses to eat and to drink 
in ? or despise ye the church of God, and shame 
them that have not ? What shall I say to you ? 
shall I praise you in this ? I praise you not. For 
I have received of the Lord that which also I de- 
livered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same 
night in which he was betrayed took bread : and 
when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, 
Take, eat ; this is my budy, which is broken for 
you : this do in remembrance of me. After the 
9ame manner also he took the cup, when be had 
supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament 
in my blood : this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in 
remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this 
bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's 
tii till he come; Wherefore whosoever shall 



OF THE BIBLE. 161 

eat tbi* bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, 

unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood 
of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, 
and so let him eat of that bread, and drink ot 
that cup. For lie that eateh and drinketh un- 
worthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to him- 
self, not discerning the* Lord's body. 



CHAP. LII. 

LOVE. 

Walk in love. The Lord make you to in- 
crease and abound in love one towards another, 
and towards all men, even as we do towards 

you. . - 

Beloved, let us love one another : for love is ot 
God ; and every one that loveth is born of God, 
and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth 
not God ; for God is love. In this was mani- 
fested the love of God towards us, because that 
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, 
that we might live through him. Herein is love, 
not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and 
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to 
love one another. *. 

If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, 

and his love is perfected in us. He that dwells 

eth in lo\e dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

If a man say, 1 love God, and hateth his 

er, he is a liar: tor he that loveth not his 

whom he hath seen, how can he love 

iom lie hath not seen r 

This is I "e walk affc - »and : 



162 COMPENDIUM 

By love serve one another. Let love be with- 
out dissimulation. Love covereth all sins. 



CHAP. LIII. 

MARRIAGE. 

The Lord God formed man of the dust of tlie 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life : and man became a living soul. And the 
Lord God said, it is not good that the man should 
be alone: I will make him an help meet for him. 
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam, and he slept : and he took one of his 
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. 
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from 
man, made he a woman, an# brought her unto 
the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of 
my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be 
called Woman ; because she was taken out of 
man. Therefore shall a man leave his father 
and his mother, and shall cleave iinto his wife ; 
and they shall be one flesh. 

Jesus said unto them : What did Moses com- 
mand you ? And they said, Moses suffered to 
write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For 
the hardness of your heart he wrote you this pre- 
cept : but from the beginning of the creation God 
made them male and female. For this cause shall 
a man leave his father and mother and cleave to 
his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh : so 
then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What 
therefore God hath joined together, let no ma& 
put asunder. 

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OF THE BIBLE. 163 

CHAP. LIV, 

MEEKNESS. 

Pur thtim in mind to be gentle, shewing all 
meekness: unto all men. 

Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit 
the earth. 

The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is in 
the sight of God of great price. 

Seek ye the Lord all ye meek of the earth, 
which have wrought his judgment, seek right- 
eousness, seek meekness. 

Good and upright is the Lord. The meek will 
he guide in judgment : and the meek will he teach 
his way. 

The Lord hath anointed me to preach good 
tidings unto the meek. 

The Lord lifteth up the meek. The meek shall 
increase their joy in the Lord. He will beautify 
the meek with salvation. 

The meek shall eat and be satisfied. The meek 
shall delight them selves in theabund^nce ofpeace. 

Who is a wise man and endued with knowl- 
edge among you ? let him shew out of a good con- 
versation his works with meekness of wisdom. 
** Be ready always to give an answer to every 
man that asketh you a reason of the hope that 
is in you, with meekness and fear. 

CHAP. LY. 

MERCY AND COMPASSION. 

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain 
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164 COMPENDIUM 

Keep mercy. By mercy and truth iniquity is 
purged. Break oft* thine iniquities by shewing 
mercy. He that followeth after righteousness 
and mercy, findeth life, righteousness, and hon- 
our. 

Be ye merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 
He delighteth in mercy. It is of the Lord's mer- 
cies that we are not consumed. 

The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabi- 
tants of the land, because there is no truth, nor 
mercy. 

Shew mercy and compassions every man to his 
brother. 

Be ye all of one mind, having compassions one 
of another. 

He shall have judgment without mercy, that 
hath shewed no mercy. 

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, 
because that he remembered not to shew mercy. 

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, 
that they have no covering in the cold They 
are wet with the showers of the mountains, and 
embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the 
poor he also shall cry himself, but shall not be 
heard. 

He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. 

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul ' 
but he that is cruel troubleth his own fl«sh-. 

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast : 
bjat the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 

The dark places of the earth are full of the 
habitations of cruelty. 

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the 
wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous 
cruel mar.- 



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CHAP. LVI. 

MIRACLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.* 

There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee : and 
the mother of Jesus was there ; and both Jesus 
was called, and his disciples to the marriage. And 
when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith 
unto him. They have no wine. Jesus saith unto 
them. Fill the waterpots with water. And they fill- 
ed them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, 
Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the 
feast. And they bare it. The ruler of the feast 
tasted the water that was made wine, and knew 
not whence it was, but the servants, which drew 
the water knew. This beginning of miracles did 
Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth 
his glory ; and his disciples believed on him. 

The nobleman, whose son was sick at Caper- 
naum, saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my 
child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way ; 
thy son liveth. And the man believed the word 
that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his 
way. And as he was now going down, his ser* 
vants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son 
liveth. This is the second miracle that Jesus 
did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee, 

A certain man was there, which had an infir- 
mity, thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw 
him lie, and knew that he had been now a long 
time in that case, he saith unto him, wilt thou be 
made whole ? The impotent man answered him ? 
Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to 



* A r mnged in the order a\ which they §re believed to have 
beeja ^"ruiarht. 



COMPENDIUM 

put me into the pool : but while I am coming 
another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith 
unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk. And 
immediately the man was made whole, and took 
up his bed, and walked. 

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto 
you, Before Abraham was, 1 am. Then took 
they up stones and cast at him : but Jesus hid him- 
self, and w r ent out of the temple, going through 
the midst of them, and so passed by. And as Jesus 
passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his 
birth. He spat on the ground, and made clay of 
the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind 
man with the clay. And said unto him, Go, wash 
ifi the pool of Siloam, (which is, by interpreta- 
tion, Sent.) He went his way, therefore, and 
washed, and came seeing. 

There was in their synagogue a man with an 
unclean spirit ; and he cried out. And Jesus 
rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come 
out of him. And when the unclean spirit had 
torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came 
out of him. And they were all amazed. 

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. And 
he came, and took her by the hands, and lifted 
her up ; and immediately the fever left her, and 
she ministered unto them. 

They brought unto him all that were diseased, 
and them that were possessed with devils. And 
he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, 
and cast out many devils. 

Jesus went about all Galilee, healing all manner 
of sickness, and all manner of disease, among the 
people. And his fame went throughout all Syria : 
and they brought unto him all sick people that 
ivere taken with divers diseases and torments. 



OF THE BIBLE. 167 

and those winch were possessed with devils, and 
those which were 1 una tick, and those that had the 
palsy ; and he healed them. 

There came a leper and worshipped him, say- 
ing, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, 
saying, I will, be thou clean. And immediately 
his leprosy was cleansed. 

When Jesus was entered into Capernaum, 
there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 
and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick 
of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus 
said unto the centurion, Go thy way ; and as thou 
hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his 
servant was healed in the self-same hour. 

When he came nigh to the gate of the city, 
behold there was a dead man carried out, the 
only son of his mother, and she was a widow : 
and much people of the city was with her. And 
when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on 
her, and said unto her, AVeep not. And he came, 
and touched the beir : and they that bare him, 
stood still. And he said, A^oung man, I say unto 
thee, Arise. And he that was dead, sat up, and 
began to speak. 

When he was entered into a ship, his disciples 
Ml owed him. And, behold, there arose a great 
tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was 
covered with the waves : but he was asleep. And 
iiis disciples came tohim 4 and awoke him, saying. 
Lord, save us : we perish. And he saith unto 
them, why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith : 
Theti he arose, and rebuked the winds and the 
sea : and there was a grtat calm. 

When he was come out of the ship, tc)\ 

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168 COMPENDIUM 

unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the 
tombs 5 and no man could bind him, no, not with 
chains. He said unto him, Come out of the man 
thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What 
is thy name ? And he answered, saying, My 
name is Legion : for we are many. And the 
unclean spirits went out. 

He entered into Capernaum. And they come 
unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy. He 
saith to the sick of the palsy, I say unto thee, 
Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into 
thine house. And immediately he arose, took up 
the bed, and went forth before them all. 

A certain woman, which had an issue of blood 
twelve years, and had suffered many things of 
many physicians, and had spent all that she had, 
and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse : 
when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press 
behind, and touched his garment : for she said, 
If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 
And straightway the fountain of her blood was 
dried up ; and she felt in her body that she was 
healed of that plague. And he said unto her, 
Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole ; go in 
peace, and be whole of thy plague. 

There came from the ruler of the synagogue's 
house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead ; 
why troublest thou the master any further ? As 
soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, 
he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not 
afraid, only believe. And he took the damsel by 
the hand, and said unto her, Talitha-cumi ; which 
is being interpreted, Damsel ? (I say unto thee) 
arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and 
walked. 

Two blind men followed him, crying, and 



OF THE BIBLE. 169 

saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. 
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According 
to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes 
were opened. 

They brought to him a dumb man possessed 
with a devil. And when the devil was cast 
out, the dumb spake : and the multitudes mar- 
velled. 

As he entered into a certain village, there met 
him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar 
oft*: and they lifted up their voices and said, 
Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And, when he 
saw them, he said unto them, Go, shew yourselves 
unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as 
they went, they were cleansed. 

Jesus, groaning in himself, cometh to the grave. 
Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said. Father, I thank 
thee that thou hast heard me: and I knew that 
thou hearest me always; but because of the peo- 
ple which stand hy, I said it, that they may 
believe that thou hast sent me. And when he 
thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, 
Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead, 
came forth, bound hand and foot with grave 
clothes : and his face was bound about with a 
napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and 
let him go. 

There was a man which had his hand withered. 
He saith to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. 
And he stretched it forth ; and it was restored 
whole, like as the other. 

Then was brought unto him one possessed with 
a devil, blind and dumb ; and he healed him, inso- 
much that the blind and dumb both spake and 
saw. And all the people were amazed. 

Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,, 
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170 COMPENDIUM 

and was moved with compassion towards them, 
and he healed their sick. And he commanded 
the multitude to sit dowa on the grass, and took 
the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up 
to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the 
loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the 
multitude. And they did all eat, and were 
tilled : and they took up of the fragments that 
remained, twelve baskets full. And they that 
had eaten, were about five thousand men, beside 
women and children. 

The ship was in the midst of the sea, tossed 
with waves : for the wind was contrary. And 
in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto 
them, walking on the sea. And when Peter was 
come down out of the ship, he walked on the 
water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind 
boisterous, he was afraid ; and, beginning to sink, 
he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And imme- 
diately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and 
caught; him, and said unto him, O thou of little 
faith ! wherefore didst thou doubt? And when 
they were come into the ship the wind ceased. 
Then they that were in the ship came and wor- 
shipped him, saying, Of a truth tlaou art the Son 
of Gbd. 

When the men of that place had knowledge of 
him, they sent out into all that country round 
about, and brought unto him all that were dis- 
eased : and besought him that they might only 
touch the hem of his garment : and as many as 
touched were made perfectly whole. 

A certain woman, whose young daughter had 
an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and 
fell at his feet. And she besought him that he 
would cast forth the devil out of her daughter 



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And he said unto her, Go thy way; the devil 
has gone out of thy daughter. And when she 
was come to her house, she found the devil gone 
out. 

They bring unto him one that was deaf, and 
had an impediment in his speech; and they be- 
seech him to put his hand upon him. And he 
took him aside from the multitude, and put his 
fingers into his ears ; and he spit, and touched 
his tongue ; and, looking up to heaven, he sighed, 
and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be open- 
ed. And straightway his ears were opened, and 
the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake 
plain. 

Great multitudes came unto him, having with 
them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed ; 
and many others, and cast them down at Jesus- 
feet, and he healed them. 

Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have 
ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little 
fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit 
down on the ground. And he took the seven 
loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake 
them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples 
to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were 
tilled : and they took up of the broken meat that 
was left, seven baskets full. And they that did 
eat were four thousand men, beside women and 
children. 

He cometh to Bethsaida ; and they bring a 
blind man unto him, and besought him to touch 
him. And he took the blind man by the hand, 
and led him out of the town ; and when he had 
on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he 
asked him if he saw aught ? And lie looked up, 
and said ? I see men as trees walking. After that 



1JT2 COMPENDIUM 

he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made 
him look up : and he was restored and saw every 
jnan clearly. 

There came to him a certain man, kneeling 
down to him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on 
my son ; for he is lunatick, and sore vexed : for 
oft-times he falleth into the fire, and oft into the 
water. And Je6us rebuked the devil, and he 
departed out of him : and the child was cured 
from that very hour. 

Jesus saith unto him, lest we should offend 
them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and 
take up the fish that first cometh up ; and, when 
thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a 
piece of money : that take, and give unto them 
for me and thee. 

Jesus said unto him, What w T ilt thou that I 
should do unto thee ? The blind man said unto 
him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And 
Jesus said unto him, Go thy way 5 thy faith hath 
made thee whole. And immediately he received 
his sight. 

The blind and the lame came to him in the 
temple; and he healed them 

He went out of the city into Bethany 5 and he 
lodged there. Now in the morning, as he re- 
turned into the city, he hungered. And when 
he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and 
found noting thereon, but leaves only 5 and said 
unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward 
for ever. And presently the fig-tree withered 
away. And when the disciples saw it, they mar- 
velled, saying, How soon is the fig-tree withered 
away! 

Behold, a multitude, and he that was called 
Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and 



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drew near unto Jesus, to kiss him. But Jesus 
said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son ot 
man with a kiss ? When they which were about 
him, saw what would follow, they said unto him, 
Lord, shall we smite with the sword ? And one 
of them smote the servant of the high priest, and 
cut oft' his right ear. And Jesus answered, and 
said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear 
£nd healed him, 



CHAP. LVII. 

NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

The Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Be- 
hold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel. 

The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise : 
when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she was found with 
child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her hus- 
band, being a just man, anil not willing to make 
her a public example, was minded to put her 
away privily. But while he thought on these 
things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared 
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of 
David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; 
for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy 
Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and 
thou shalt call his name JhSUS; for he shall 
save his people from their sins. (Now all this 
was done, that it might be fulfilled which was 
spoken of the Lord, by the prophet, saying, Be- 
hold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Em- 
manuel, which, being interpreted, is God with us.) 
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174 COMPENDIUM 

Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the 
angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto 
him his wife ; and knew her not till she had 
brought forth her first born son : and he called 
his name JESUS. 



CHAP. LVIIL 

ORIGINAL STATE OF MAN, SIN, THE FALL, AND 
DEATH. 

God created man in his own image ; in the 
image of God created he him : male and female 
created he them. And God blessed them. 

God hath made man upright $ but they have 
sought out many inventions. 

Man being in honour abideth not. 

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in 
Eden : and there he put the man whom he had 
formed. And out of the ground made the Lord 
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the 
sight ; and good for food : the tree of life also in 
the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowl- 
edge of good and evil. And the Lord God took 
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, 
to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God 
commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the 
garden thou mayest freely eat ; but of the tree 
of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not 
eat of it 1 for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou 
shak surely die. For Adam there was not found 
an help meet for him. And the Lord God made 
a woman, and brought her unto the man. And 
Adam called his wife's name Eve 5 because she 
was the mother of all living. 

Now the serpent was mom subtle than any 



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beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 
And he said unto the woman, yea. hath God said, 
Ye shall not eat of e^ery tree of the garden ? 
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may 
eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden : but of 
the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the 
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, 
neither shall ye touch it lest ye die. And the 
serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely 
die ; for God doth know, that in the day ye eat 
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; and ye 
shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. And 
when the woman saw that the tree was good for 
food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and 
a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took 
of the fruit thereof, and did eat: and gave also 
unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And 
the eyes of them both were opened, and they 
knew that they were naked ; and they sewed 
fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walk- 
ing in the garden in the cool of the day : and 
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the pre- 
sence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the 
garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam 
and said unto him, Where art thou ? And he 
said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was 
afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. 
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast nak- 
ed ? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I com- 
manded thee that thou shouldst not eat ? And 
the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to 
be with me, she gave me ^of the tree and I did 
eat. And the Lord Gtfd said unto the woman, 
What is this that thou hast done ? And the wo- 
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176 COMPENDIUM 

eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, 
Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed 
above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
iield ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust 
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will 
put enmity between thee and the woman, and 
between thy seed and her seed : it shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto 
the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy 
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt 
bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to 
thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And 
unto Adam he said, Because thou hast harkened 
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the 
tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
shalt not eat of it ; cursed is the gcound for thy 
sake : in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days 
of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring 
forth to thee : and thou shalt eat the herb of the 
field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat 
bread till thou return unto the ground ; for out 
of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou art, and unto 
dust shalt thou return. 

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is 
become as one of us to know good and evil. And 
now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of 
the tree of life, and eat and live forever : there- 
fore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
taken. So he drove out the man : and he placed 
;it the east of the garden of Eden, cherubims, and 
a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep 
the way of the tree of life. 

JW man came death. In Adam all die. The 
wages of sin is death. As by one man sin en- 
ivicd into the world, and death by sin; and so 



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death passed apon all men, for that all have sin- 
ned. 

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of 
God. 

The scripture hath concluded all under sin, 
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be 
siven to them that believe. 



CHAP. LIX. 

PARABLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.* 

Jesus spake many things unto them in para 
bles, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow ; 
and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way 
side, and the fowls came and devoured them up : 
some fell upon stony places, where they had not 
much earth : and forthwith they sprung up be- 
cause they had no deepness of earth : and when 
the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because 
they had not root, they withered away. And 
some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung 
up and choaked them. But other fell into good 
ground, and brought forth fruit some and hun- 
dred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold. 
Hear ye the parable of the sower. When any 
one heareth the word of the kingdom, and under- 
standeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, 
and catcheth away that which was sown in his 
heart. This is he which received seed by the 
way side. But he that received the seed into 
stony places, the same is he that heareth the 
word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; yet hath 

* A selection. For some of the other Parables, see pages 
56, 92, 14<\ 



178 COMPENDIUM 

he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for 
when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of 
the word, by and by he is offended. He also that 
received seed among the thorns, is he that hear- 
eth the word ; and the care of the world, and the 
deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he 
beeometh unfruitful. But he that received seed 
into the good ground, is he that heareth the word 
and understandeth it : which also beareth fruit, 
and bringeth forth some an hundred fold, some 
sixty, some thirty. 

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, 
The kingdom of heaven is likened jinto a man 
which sowed good seed in the field : but while 
men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares 
among the wheat, and went his way. Rut when 
the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, 
then appeared the tares also. So the servants 
of the householder came and said unto him, Sir ? 
didst thou not sow good seed in thy field ? from 
whence then hath it tares ? He said unto them, 
an enemy hath done this. The seivants said 
unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather 
them up. But he said, Nay ; lest wnile ye 
gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat 
with them. Let both grow together until the 
harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to 
the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, 
and bind them in bundles to burn them : but 
gather the wheat into my barn. He that soweth 
the good seed, is the Son of man ; the field is the 
world ; the good seed are the children of the 
kingdom ;. but the tares are the children of the 
wicked one ; the enemy that sowed them is the 
devil ; the harvest is the end of the world ; and 
the reapers are the angels. As therefore the 



OF THE BIBLE. 179 

( jf ares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so 
I J shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of 
man shall send forth his angels, and they shall 
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast them 
into a furnace of fire ; there shall be wailing and 
gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous 
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their 
' lather. 

t Hear another parable ; There was a certain 
householder which planted a vineyard, aridhedged 
it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and 
J built a tower, and let it out to hasbandmen, and 
went into a far country. And when the time of 
the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the 
husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of 
it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and 
beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 
Again he sent other servants more than the first i 
and they did unto them likewise. But last of all 
he sent unto them his son, saying, They will rev- 
erence my son. But when the husbandmen saw 
the son, they said among themselves, This is the 
heir ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on 
his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast 
him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When 
the lord, therefore, of the vineyard cometh, what 
will he do unto those husbandmen ? They say 
unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked 
men, and will let out his vineyard unto other 
husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in 
their seasons. 

A certain man had two sons : and the younger 
of them said to his father, Father, give nie the 
portion of goods that falleth to me. And he di^ 
vided unto £hem his living. And not many davs 



180 COMPENDIUM 

after, the younger son gathered all together, and 
took his journey into a far country, and there 
wasted his substance with riotous living. And 
when he had spent all, there arose a mighty fam- 
ine in that land 5 and he began to be in want. 
And he went, and joined himself to a citizen of 
that country ; and he sent him into his fields to 
feed swine. And he would fain have filled his 
belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and 
no man gave unto him. And when he came to 
himself, he saio\ How many hired servants of 
my father's have bread enough, and to spare, and 
I perish with hunger ! I will arise, and go to my 
father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sin- 
ned against heaven and before thee, and am no 
more worthy to be called thy son : make me as 
one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and 
came to his father. But when he was yet a great 
way off, his father saw him, and had compassion* 
and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 
And the son said unto him, Father, 1 have sin- 
ned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no 
more worthy to be called thy son. But the fa- 
ther said to his servants, bring forth the best 
robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring on hia 
hand, and shoes on his feet : and bring hither 
the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat, and 
be merry : for this my son was dead, and is alive 
again; he was lost, and is found. And they be- 
gan to be merry. Now, his elder son was in the 
field : and as he came, and drew nigh to the 
house, he heard musick and dancing. And he 
called one of the servants, and asked what these 
things meant. And he said unto him, Thy bro- 
ther is come ; and thy father hath killed the fat- 
fr-l! calf, because he hath received him safe and 



OF THE BIBLE. 181 

sound. And he was angry, and would not go in : 
therefore came his father out, and entreated him. 
And he, answering, said to his father, Lo, these 
many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed 
I at any time thy commandment ; and yet thou 
never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry 
with my friends ; but as soon as this thy son was 
come, which hath devoured thy living with har- 
lots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And 
he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and 
all that I have is thine. It was meet th°t we 
should make merry, and be glad : for this thy 
brother was dead, and is alive again 5 and was 
lost, and is found. 



CHAP. LX. 

PATIENCE. 

Be patient towards all men. In your patience 
possess ye your souls. 

The patient in spirit is better than the proud 
in spirit. 

Be patient in tribulation. Tribulation worketh 
patience ; and patience experience ; and experi- 
ence hope : and hope maketh not ashamed. 

If we hope for that we see not, then do we 
with patience wait for it. 

What glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for 
your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? But if 
when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it pa- 
tiently, this is acceptable with God. 

Ye have need of patience, that after ye have 
done the will of God, ye might receive the 
promise. 

Be patient, brethren, unto the aoming of the 
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182 COMPENDIUM 

Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for th« 
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience 
for it, until he receive the early and latter rain, 
Be ye also patient ; siablish your hearts ; for the 
coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 

Take my brethren, the prophets, who have 
spoken in the name of the Lord, tor an example 
of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, 
we count them happy which endure. Ye have 
heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the 
end of the Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful, 
and of tender mercy. 

Seeing we are encompassed about with so great 
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, 
and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let 
us run with patience the race set before us ; look- 
ing unto Jesus the author and finisher of our 
faith i who for the joy that was set before him, 
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is 
set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 
For consider him that endured such contradiction 
of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and 
faint in your minds. 

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into 
divers temptations ; knowing that the trying of 
your faith worketh patience ; but let patience 
have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect 
and entire, wanting nothing. 



CHAP. LXI. *" 

PEACE. 

Love peace. Seek peace, and pursue it. 
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live 
peaceably with all men. 



OF THE BIBLE. 183 

God is not the author of confusion, but of 
peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Live 
in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be 
with you. 

To the counsellors of peace is joy. 

Blessed are the peacemakers : for they shall be 
called the children of God. 

Can two walk together, except they be agreed ? 
Se that ye fall not out by the way. 

Mark them which cause divisions. 

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought 
to desolation ; and every city or house divided 
against itself shall not stand. 

Avoid contentions. Leave oft* contention. 

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire ; 
so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 

A wrathful man stirreth up strife } but he that 
is slow to anger appeaseth strife. 

Strive not with a man without a cause, if he 
have done thte no harm. 

Hatred stirreth up strifes. A wicked man de- 
viseth mischief continually ; he soweth accord. 

We beseech you, brethren, that ye study to be 
quiet. 

Be of the same mind one towards another. 
Have peace one with another ; and warn them 
that are unruly. 

Follow peace with all men. Let us follow after 
the things which make for peace. 

I am for peace 5 but when I speak, they are for 
war. 

From whence come wars and fightings among- 
you r come they not from hence, even of your 
lusts ? 

Every battle of the warrior is with confused 
noise, and garments rolled in blood. 



184 COMPENDIUM 

Scatter thou the people that delight in war. 

To be spiritually minded is life and peace* 

God hath called us to peace. When he givetk 
quietness, who then can make trouble ? 

When a man's ways please the Lord , he maketh 
even his enemies to be at peace with him. 

Acquaint now thyself with the Almighty, and 
be at peace : thereby good shall come unto thee. 

Great peace have they which love thy law. 

The peace of God, which passeth all under- 
standing, shall keep your hearts and minds through 
Christ Jesus. Let the peace of God rule in your 
hearts. 

Peace I leave with you , my peace I give unto you. 

The fruit of the spirit is peace. 

The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of 
them that make peace. 

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright? 
for the end of that man is peace. 

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked . 



CHAP. LXII. 

PERSEVERANCE. 

Be not weary in well-doing. No man having 
|)ut his hand to the plough, and looking back, is 
lit for the kingdom of God. 

Let us fef r, lest, a promise being left us of en- 
tering into his rest, any of you should seem to 
come short of it. 

Beloved, beware lest ye also, being led away 
with the error of the wicked, fall from your own 
steadfastness. 

Let him that thijiketh he standeth, take heed 
lest he fall, 



OF THE BIBLE. 185 

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those 
things which we have wrought. 

I keep under my body, and bring it into sub- 
jection ; lest that by any means, when I have 
preached to others, I myself should be a cast- 
away* 

Forgetting those things which are behind, and 
reaching forth unto those things which are before, 
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high 
calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

It is impossible for those who were once en- 
lightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, 
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and 
have tasted the good word of God, and the pow- 
ers of the w r orld to come, if they shall fall away, 
to renew them again unto repentance ; seeing 
they crucify to themselves the Son ef God afresh, 
and put him to an open shame. 

If after they have escaped the pollutions of the 
world through the knowledge of the Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled 
therein, and overcome^ the latter end is worse 
with them than the beginning. For it had been 
better for them not to have known the way of 
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to 
turn from the holy commandment delivered unto 
them. 

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation : 
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown 
of life which the Lord hath promised to them that 
love him. 

We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold 
the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto 
the end. 

He that endureth to the end shall be saved. 

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in 
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186 COMPENDIUM 

the temple of my God, and he shall go no more 
out. 

He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; 
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of 
the tree of life, which is in the midst of the par- 
adise of God. 

If any man draw back, my soul shall have no 
pleasure in him. But we are not of them who 
draw back unto perdition ; but of them that be- 
lieve to the saving of the soul. 

The righteous shall hold on his way, and he 
that hath clean hands shall be stronger and 
stronger. The righteous shall never be removed.. 
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his 
steps shall slide. 

The Lord will not forsake his people. He will 
keep the feet of his saints. 

The Lord loveth jndgment, and forsaketh not 
his saints ; they are preserved forever. 

This God is our God for ever and ever; he 
will be our guide even unto death. Thou shalt 
guide me with thy council, and afterward receive 
me to glory. 

They go from strength to strength, every one 
of them in Zion appeareth before God 

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount 
Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for 
ever. 

The Lord will perfect that which concerneth 
me. 

Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : be not 
dismayed ; Fori am thy God. I will strengthen 
thee ; yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will up- 
hold thee with th? right hand of my righteous- 
ness-. 



OF THE BIBLE. 187 

The mountains shall depart, and the hills be 
removed : but my kindness shall not depart from 
thee, neither shall the (tenant of my peace be 
removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 
And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; 
and great shall be the peace of thy children. In 
righteousness shalt thou be established : thou 
shalt be far from oppression ; for thou shalt not 
fear: and from terror; for it shall not come 
near thee. No weapon that is formed against 
thee shall prosper ; and every tongue that shall 
rise against thee in judgment, thou shalt con- 
demn. This is the heritage of the servants of 
the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith 
the Lord. 

Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an ever- 
lasting salvation ; ye shall not be ashamed nor 
confounded world without end. 

Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall 
give him, shall never thirst; but the water that 
I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water 
springing up into everlasting life. I am the liv- 
ing bread which came down from heaven. If any 
man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. 

Because I live, ye shall live also. 

Having loved his own which were in the world, 
he loved them unto the end. 

They shall not depart from me. 

All that the Father giveth me shall come to 
me : and him that cometh to me I will in no wise 
cast out. 

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and 
they follow me : and I give unto them eternal 
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall 
any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, 
which gave them me, is greater than alls and 



188 COMPENDIUM 

no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers 
hand. 

Sin shall not have dominion over you : for ye 
are not under the law, but under grace. 

Ye come behind in no gift 5 waiting for the 
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ : who shall also 
confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blame- 
less in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God 
is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fel- 
lowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 

God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be 
tempted above that ye are able ; but will with the 
temptation also make a way to escape, that ye 
may be able to bear it. 

All things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, 
or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things 
present, or things to come ; all are yours. 

Being confident of this very thing, that he 
which hath begun a good work in you, will perform 
it until the day of Jesus Christ. 

God, willing more abundantly to shew unto 
the heirs of promise the immutability of his 
council, confirmed it by an oath ; That by two 
immutable things, in which it was impossible for 
God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, 
who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope 
set before us. Which hope we have as an anchor 
of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which 
eatereth into that within the veil. 

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor for- 
sake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord 
is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall 
do unto me. 

The anointing which ye have received of him 
*bideth in you. 

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for his seed remaineth in him : and he cannot sin, 
because he is born of God. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant 
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope 
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,and 
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you ; 
who are kept by the power of God through faith 
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? 
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or 
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword r As it 
is written, For thy sake are we killed all the day 
long ; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
Nay, in all these things we are more than con- 
querors through him that loved us. For I am 
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor an- 
gels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things 
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor 
depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to 
separate us from the love of God, which is in 
phrist Jesus our Lord, 



CHAP. LXIIL 

POLITENESS. 

Be courteous : in honor preferring one another, 
We that are strong ought to bear the infirmi- 
ties of the weak, and not to p!ease ourselves. 
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his 
good to edification. For even Christ pleased not 
himself. 

Abraham bowed down himself before the peo- 
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Jacob passed over before them, and bowed 
himself to the ground. 

The king rose up to meet her, and bowed him- 
self unto her, and sat down on his throne, and 
caused a seat to be set for the king's mother $ and 
she sat on his right hand. 

I am not mad, most noble Festus ; but speak 
forth the words of truth and soberness. 

God threatened it asun evil, that the child shall 
behave himself proudly against the ancient, and 
the base against the honourable. 

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and 
honour the face of the old man. 

Days should speak, and multitude of years 
should teach wisdom. 

If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye 
more than others ? 

When ye come into an house, salute it. 

When thou art bidden of any man to a wed- 
ding, sit not down in the highest room. 

Honour all men. Greet ye one another wit!- 
a kiss of charity. 

We were gentle among you. 

A soft answer turneth away wrath. A wor 
fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures* 
silver. 

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracioij 

Let your speech be always with grace. 

Evil communications corrupt good mannery* 



CHAP. LXIV. 

PRAYER. 

Pray always. Let us lift up our heart with 
our hands unto God in the heavens. O come let 



OF THE BIBLE. 191 

ns worship and bow down : let us kneel before 
i the Lord our maker. 

Bless ye the Lord : praying in the Holy 
Ghost : giving thanks always for all things unto 
God and the Father, in the name of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

Pray without ceasing. Confess your faults one 
to another, a^id pray for one another, that ye may 
be healed. 

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine 
heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. 

Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray. 

The Lord heareth the prayer of the righteous. 

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous 
man avaiieth much. 

We give thanks to God always for you all, 
making mention of you in our prayers. 

Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go 
unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, 
lend me three loaves ; for a friend of mine in his 
ourney is come to me, and I have nothing to set 
efore him ? And he from within shall answer, 
nd say. Trouble me not ; the door is now shut, 
nd my children are with me in bed; I cannot 

^.e and give thee. T say unto you, Though he 

ill not rise and give him, because he is his 

end ; yet, because of his importunity, he will 
« e and give him as much as he needeth, And 
ay uuto you, Ask, and it shall be given 
. : se< j k, and ye shall find : knock, and it shall 
be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, 
receiveth : and he that seeketh, findeth ; and to 
him that, knocketh, it shall be opened. If a son 
shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, 
will he give him a stone ? or, if he ask a fish, 
will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or, if he 



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shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If 
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
to your children ; how much more shall your 
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them 
that ask him. 

When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have 
ought against any ; that your Father also which 
is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father 
which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. 

Let thy words be few. When ye pray, use 
not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they 
think that they shall be heard for their much 
speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : 
for your Father knoweth what things ye have 
need of, before ye ask him After this manner, 
thefore, pray ye : Our Father which art in heaven ; 
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. 
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive 
us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead 
us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil : 
for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
glory, forever. Amen. 



CHAP. LXV. 

PROFANITY, PERJURY, AND BLASPHEMY. 

Bless and curse not. Because of swearing 
the land mourneth. 

Swear not at all ; neither by heaven ; for it is 
God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his 
footstool : neither by Jerusalem ; for it is the city 
of the great king : neither shalt thou swear by thy 
bead, because thou canst not make one hair white 



OF THE BIBLE- 195 

or black ; but let your communication be, Yea, 

yea ; Nay, nay ; for whatsoever is more than 
these cometh of evil. 

Above all thing?, my brethren, swear not; 
neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither 
by any other oath : but let your yea be yea ; and 
your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. 

Ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither 
shall thou profane the name of thy God. 

Love no false oath : neither accuse any falsely. 

Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 

Put not thine hand with the wicked to be an 
unrighteous witness. An ungodly witness scorneth 
judgment. 

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false wit- 
ness will utter lies. 

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceit- 
ful witness speak eth lies. 

A man that beareth false witness is a maul, and 
a sword, and a sharp arrow. 

A false witness shail not be unpunished. A false 
witness shall perish. 

I will be a swift witness against false swear- 
ers, saith the Lord of hosts. 

My confusion is continually before me, and 
the shame of my face hath covered me, for the 
voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, 

My name, saith the Lord, continually every 
Jay is blasphemed. 

All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, 

and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall 

blaspheme ; but he that shall blaspheme agaihst 

the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in 

r of eternal damnation. 

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be for- 
unto men : but the blasphemy against the 
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Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And 
whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of 
man, it shall be forgiven him ; but whosoever 
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be 
forgiven him, neither in. this world neither in the 
world to come. 



CHAP. LXVL 

PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. 

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the 
day of adversity consider. 

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep 
with them that weep. 

It is good and comely for one to eat and to 
drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour 
that he taketh under the sun all the days of his 
life, which God giveth him : for it is his portion. 
Every man also to whom God hath given riches 
and wealth, and hath given him power to eat 
thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in 
Ills labour ; this is the gift of God. 

The prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 

When the wicked spring as the grass, and 
when all the workers of iniquity do flourish : it is 
that they shall be destroyed for ever. 

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy 
strength is small. 

Blessed are they which are persecuted for 
righteousness* sake : for theirs is the kingdom of 
heaven. 

If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not 
be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this 
behalf. 

Blessed' are ye, when men shall revile you. 



OF THE BIBLE. 195 

aw] persecute you, and shall say all manner of 
evil against you falsely, for my sake. 

Blessed are they that mourn ; for they shall be 
comforted. 

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than 
to the house of feasting : for that is the end of all 
men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sor- 
row is better than laughter : for by the sadness 
of the countenance the heart is made better. 

Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither 
Joth trouble spring out of the ground. 

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O 
Lord, and teachest him out of thy law ; that thou 
mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, 
until the pit be digged for the wicked. 

Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as 
a father the son in whom he deiighteth. 

Ye have forgotten the exhortation, which 
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, de- 
spise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor 
faint when thou art rebuked of him : for whom 
the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth. 
every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure 
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons 5 
for what son is he whom the father chasteneth 
not ? We have had fathers of our flesh, which 
corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall 
we not much rather be in subjection unto the 
Father of spirits, and live ? For they verily for 
a few days chastened us after their own pleasure ; 
but he for our profit, that we might be partakers 
of his holiness. Now,, no chastening for the 
present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous : 
nevertheless afterward, it yieldeth the peacea- 
ble fruit of righteousness unto them which are 
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Help, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth; for 
the faithful fail from among the children of men. 

David said unto his servants, is the child dead ? 
And they said. He is dead. Then David arose 
from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, 
and changed his apparel, and came into the house 
of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to 
his own house ; and when he required they set 
bread before him, and he did eat. 

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, 
and mine acquaintance into darkness. 

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away j 
blessed be the name of the Lord. 

Be still, and know that i am God. 

I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, 
and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. 
Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now 
have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I 
have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy stat- 
utes. 

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon 
which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my 
comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quick- 
ened me. 

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy 
pomforts delight my soul. 

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation 
not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the »vorid 
worketh death. 

Many are the afflictions of the righteous ; but 
the Lord delivereth him out of them all. The 
Lord will have mercy upon his afflicted. 

When thy judgments are in the earth, the in- 
habitants of the world will learn righteousness- 
He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve trie 
children vf men. 



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Let them that suffer according to the will of 
God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in 
well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator. 

The just shall come out of trouble. The right- 
eous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth 
them oiit of all their troubles. The salvation of 
the righteous is of the Lord ; he is their strength 
in time of trouble. 

Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray. 

Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake, for 
thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of 
trouble. 

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him i 
I will be with him in trouble. 

Give us help from trouble : for vain is the help 
cf man. 

When they in their trouble did turn unto the 
Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found 
of them. 

The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a 
refuge in times ot trouble. God is my refuge and 
strength, a very present help in trouble. In the 
time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavillion. 
He maketh sore and bindeth up : he woundeth 5 
and his hands make whole. 

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God 
of ail comfort : who comforteth us in all our 
tribulation, that we may be abSe to comfort them 
which are in any trouble, by the comfort where- 
with we ourselves are comforted of God. 

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be 
of pood cheer: I have overcome the world. 

We must through much tribulation enter into 
the kingdom of God. 

Our light affliction which is but for a moment 
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worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory : while we look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which are not 
seen : for the things which are seen are tempo- 
ral ; bat the things which are not seen are eternal. 
For we know if our earthly house of this taberna- 
cle were dissolved, we have a building of God, 
an house not made with hands, eternal in the 
heavens. 



CHAP. LXVIL 

PRUDENCE. 

Bee that ye walk circumspectly. 

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. The 
wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way* 

He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. 
A prudent man concealeth knowledge. 

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer : 
but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil 
things. 

The simple believeth every word: but the 
prudent man looketh well to his going. 

Keep discretion. Discretion shall preserve 
thee. 

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger* 
A fool's wrath is presently known : but a prudent 
man covereth shame. 

They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they 
turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. 
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that 
time ; for it is an evil time. 

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge. 
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge. The 
prudent are crowned with knowledge. 



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A prudent man forseeth the evil and hideth 
himself: but the simple pass on, and are pun- 
ished. 

Consider your ways. Abstain from all ap- 
pearance of evil. 

CHAP. LXVIIL 

PUBLIC WORSHIP. 

The Lord is in his holy temple : let all the 
earth keep silence before him. 

I will worship toward thy holy temple. 

I went with them to the house of God, with 
the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude 
that kept holy day. 

We took sweet counsel together, and walked 
unto the house of God in company. 

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and 
into his courts with praise. 

Let them exalt him in the congregation of the 
people, and praise him in the assembly of the 
elders. 

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the 
presence of all his people. 

i will praise the Lord with my whole heart, 
in the assembly of the upright, and in the con- 
gregation. 

Praise him, ye that stand in the house of the 
Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of 
God, and be more ready to hear, than to give 
the sacrifice of fools : for they consider riot that 
they do evil. 

Let us consider one another, to provoke unto 
love and to s;ood works: not forsaking the as« 



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sembling of ourselves together as the manner of 
some is. 

Where two or three are gathered together in 
my name, there am 1 in the midst of them. 

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 
I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of 
my God, than to dwell in the tents of wicked- 
ness. 

How dreadful is this place ! this is none other 
but the house of God, and this is the gate of 
heaven. 



CHAP. LXIX. 

REDEMPTION AND SALVATION. 

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in 
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a 
precious corner stone, a sure foundation. 

The stone which the builders rejected, the 
same is become the head of the corner. 

Other foundation can no man lay than that is 
laid, which is Christ Jesus. Neither is there 
salvation in any other : for there is none other 
name under heaven given among men whereby 
we must be saved. 

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ; for he hath 
visited and redeemed his people ; and hath raised 
up an horn of salvation for us, in the house of 
his servant David : as he spake by the mouth of 
his holy prophets, which have been since the 
world began ; that we should be saved from our 
enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us : 
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, 
and to remember his hoiy covenant; the oath 
which he sware to our father Abraham, th*1 



OF THE BIBLE. 201 

would grant unto us, that we, being delivered 
out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him 
without fear, in holiness and righteousness be- 
fore him, all the days of our life. And thou, 
child, shall be called the Prophet of the Highest : 
for thou slialt go before the face of the Lord to 
prepare his ways ; to give knowledge of salvation 
unto his people, by the remission of their sins, 
through the tender mercy of our God ; whereby 
the day spring from on high hath visited us, to 
give light to them that sit in darkness, and in 
the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way 
of peace. 

Simeon came by the Spirit into the temple : 
and when the parents brought in the child Jesus 9 
to do for him after the custom of the law r ? then 
took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and 
said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart 
in peace, according to thy word : for mine eyes 
have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepar- 
ed before the face of all people; a light to lighten 
the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel 

They sung a new song, saying, Thou art wor- 
thy to take the book, and to open the seals there- 
of : for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to 
God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation. 

If any man sin, we have an advocate with the 
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous : and he is the 
propitiation for our sins ; and not for ours only ? 
■jut also for the sins of the whole world. 

Cnrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the 
law, being made a curse for us : who gave him- 
self for us that he might redeem us from all ini- 
quity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people^ 
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By his own blood, he entered in once into the 
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption 
for us. He is the mediator of the new testament, 
that by means of death, for the redemption of the 
transgressions that were under the first testa- 
ment, they which are called might receive the 
promise of eternal inheritance. 

Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is 
made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and 
sanctification, and redemption : in whom we 
have redemption through his blood, even the 
forgiveness of sins. 

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of 
God ; being justified freely by his grace, through 
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom 
God hath set forth to be a propitiation through 
faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness 
for the remission of sins that are past, through 
the forbearance of God ; to declare at this time 
I say his righteousness ; that he might be just, 
and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. 

God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that 
he might have mercy upon all. 

Being justified by faith, we have peace with 
God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

As many as received him, to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God, even to them 
that believe on his name. 

If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord 
Jesus Christ, and shalt believe in thine heart 
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou 
shalt be saved. For with the heart man believ- 
eth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth con- 
fession is made unto salvation. 

Christ is the end of the law for righteousness 
to every one that believeth. 



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God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, hut have everlasting life. 

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not 
the Father : but he that acknowledged the Son 
hath the Father also. 

Christ died for our sins according to the scrip- 
tures : was delivered for our offences, and wa6 
raised again for our justification. 

To this end Christ both died, and rose, and 
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead 
and living. 

He died for all, that they which live, should 
not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto 
him that died for them, and rose again. 

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath 
appeared to all men. 

God our Saviour will have all men to be saved 
and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

The Son of man is come to save that which 
was lost. He shall save his people from their 
sins. He is able to save them to the uttermost, 
that come unto God by him. I came not to judge 
the world, but to save the world. 

Jesus said imtp them, they that be whole need 
not a physician, but they that are sick. But go 
ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have 
mercy and not sacrifice : for I am not come to 
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 

God rommendeth his love toward us in that 
while we were yel sinners, Christ died for us. 
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, 
we shall be saved from wrath through him. For 
if, when we were enemies we were reconcile! to 
God by 1 ! ie death of his Son : much more, being 
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And 



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not only so, but we also joy in God, through cur 
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now re- 
eeived the atonement. 

Not as the offence, so also is the free gift. Foi~ 
if through the offence of one many be dead; 
much more the grace of God, and the gift by 
grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath 
abounded unto many. And not as it was by one 
that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was 
by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of 
many offences unto justification. For if by one 
man's offence death reigned by one ; much more 
they which receive abundance of grace, and of the 
gift of righteousness, shall reign in the life by one ? 
Jesus Christ: therefore, as by the offence of one* 
judgment came upon all men to condemnation ; 
even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift 
came upon all men unto justification of life. For 
as by one man's disobedience many were made 
sinners ; so by the obedience of one shall many be 
made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that 
the offence might abound : but where sin abounded 
grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reign- 
ed unto death, even so might grace reign thro' right- 
eousness unto eternal life 5 by JesusChrist our Lord* 

This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for 
sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God $ 
from henceforth expecting till his enemies be 
made his footstool. For by one offering he hath 
perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 

He that hath the Son hath life ; and he that 
hath not the Son of God hath not life. 

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let 
him be anathema. 

I am the door : by me if any enter in, he shall 
be saved. 



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This is the will of him that sent me, that every 
one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, 
may have everlasting life : and I will raise him 
up at the last day. 

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all ac- 
ceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world 
to save sinners. 

What must 1 do to be saved ? Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt-be saved. 

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great 
salvation ? 



CHAP. LXX. 

REGENERATION. 

There was a man of the Pharisees, named 
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : the same came 
to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we 
know that thou art a teacher come from God : 
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest^ 
except God be with him. Jesus answered, and 
said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. 
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the 
kingdom of God. Verily, verily, I say unto 
thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the 
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 
That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not 
that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou 
nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell 
whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is 
every one that is born of the Spirit. 

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ 
is born of God. 






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He came unto his own, and his own received 
him not. But as many as received him, to them 
gave he power to become the sons of God, even 
to them that believe on his name : which were 
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, 
nor of the will of man, but of God. 

Of his own will begat he us with the word of 
truth. 

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying 
the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love 
of the brethren, see that ye love one another with 
a pure heart fervently : being born again not of 
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word 
of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 

Whosoever is born of God cloth not commit 
sin ; for his seed remaineth in him : and he can- 
not commit sin, because he is born of God. 

Ye know that every one that doeth righteous- 
ness is born of him. Whosoever doeth not right- 
eousness is not of God. 

Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the 
world : and this is the victory that overcometh 
the world, even our faith. 

God forbid that I should glory, save in the 
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the 
world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth 
any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new crea- 
ture. 

Our old man is crucified with him, that the 
body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth 
we should not serve sin. 

Be not conformed to this world : but be ye 
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that 
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, 
and perfect will of God. 



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By this we know that we love the children of 
God, when we love God, and keep his command- 
ments. 

The carnal mind is enmity against God : for it 
is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed 
can be. 

The natural man receiveth not the things of 
the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto 
him ; neither can he know them, because they 
are spiritually discerned. 

Put oft*, concerning the former conversation, 
the old man, which is corrupt according to the 
deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of 
Tour mind ; and put on the new man, which 
after God is created in righteousness and true 
holiness. 

Being made free from sin, and become ser- 
vants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, 
and the end everlasting life. 

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, 
with the affections and lusts. 

Create in me a clean heart, God \ and renew 
a right spirit within me. 

Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. 

Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make 
not provision for the fleshy to fulfil the lusts 
thereof. 

Hereby we do know that we know him, if we 
keep his commandments. 

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : 
old things are passed away : behold, all things 
are become new. 

Walk in f ne Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the 
lusts of the flesh. If we live in the Spirit, let us 
also walk in the Spirit, 

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him in the midst of them, and said, Verily, I say 
unto you, Except ye be converted, and become 
as little children, ye shall not enter into the 
kingdom of heaven. 



CHAP. LXX1. 

REPENTANCE. 

Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ■; 
iov the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

Repent ye, and believe the ^gospel. 

Repent, and be baptized every one of you in 
the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission af 
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy 
Ghost. 

Repent ye, and be converted, that your sins 
may be blotted out. 

Repent, and turn yourselves from all your 
transgressions 5 so iniquity shall not be your 
ruin. 

Repent, and turn to God, and do works meet 
for repentance. 

God now commandeth all men every where to 
repent. Except ye repent, ye shall all perish. 

Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ 
to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day : 
and that repentance and remission of sins should 
be preached in his name among all nations, be- 
ginning at Jerusalem. 

I kept back nothing that was profitable unto 
you, but have shewed you, and have taught you 
publickly, and from house to house, testifying 
both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repent- 
ance towards God, and faith toward our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 



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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 
amend your ways and your doings, and I will 
cause you to dwell in this place. 

Break oft* thy sins by righteousness. 

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 
waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye 
buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk 
without money and without price. Wherefore 
do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? 
and your labour for that which satisfieth not l 
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 
which is good, and let your soul delight itself in 
fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me : 
hear and your soul shall live : and I will make 
an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure 
mercies of David. 

He said unto me, it is done. I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give 
unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the 
water of life freely. 

The spirit and the bride say, Come. And let 
him that heareth, say, Come. And let him that 
is athirst, Come. And whosoever will, let him 
take the water of life freely. 

Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil 
of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to 
do evil ; learn to do well ; seek judgment, re- 
lieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead 
for the widow. Come now, and let us reason to- 
gether, saith the Lord : though your sins be as 
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though 
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 

Have I any pleasure at ail that the wicked 
should die? saith the Lord God; and not that 
he should return from his ways, and live ? 

As { live saith the Lord God, I have no pleas- 
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urein the death of the wicked; but that the 
wicked turn from his way and live : turn ye, turn 
ve from your evil ways ; for why will y« die, O 
house of Israel ? 

Cast away from you all your transgressions, 
whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you 
a new heart and a new spirit ; for why will ye 
die, O house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure 
in the death of him that dieth, . saith the Lord 
God : wherefore turn yourselves and live ye. 

Now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me 
with all your heart, and with fasting, and with 
weeping, and w r ith mourning : and rend your 
heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the 
Lord your God : for he is gracious and merciful, 
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and re- 
penteth him of the evil. 

Go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, thus saith the 
Lord, behold, I frame evil against you and de- 
vise a deviee against you : return ye now every 
one from his evil way, and make your ways and 
your doings good. 

Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my 
commandments, and my statutes. Turn ye unto 
me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn untg 
you. 

Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour 
out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my 
words unto you. 

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. 
Cleanse your hands ye sinners ; and purify your 
hearts ye double-minded. Be afflicted, and 
mourn, and weep : let your laughter be turned 
to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 



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He forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Your 
heart shall live that seek God. 

Fear the Lord and depart from evil. Wash 
thine heart from wickedness, that thou m&yest 
be saved. 

When the wicked man turneth away from his 
wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth 
that which is lawful and right, he shall save his 
soul alive. 

Make to yourselves friends, — that when ye 
fail, they may receive you into everlasting habi- 
tations. 

A bruised reed shall he not break, ami smok- 
ing flax shall he not quench. 

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a bro- 
ken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite 
spirit. 

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : a 
broken and contrite heart, God, ^hou wilt not 
despise. 

Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhab- 
iteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in 
the high and holy place ; with him also that is of 
a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit 
of the humble, and to revive the heart of the con- 
trite ones. 

To this man will I look, even to him that is 
poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trenibleth at 
my word. 

The Lord is long-suffering to us ward, not 
willing that any should perish, but that all should 
come to repentance. 

It is not the will of your Father which is in 
heaven, that one of these little ones should per- 
ish. 

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but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall 
have mercy. 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness. 

Seek ye the Lord while he may he found, call 
ye upon him while he is near : let the wicked 
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his 
thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, and 
he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God, 
for he will abundantly pardon. 

Mercy rejoiceth against judgment. There is 
joy in the presence of the angels of God, over 
one sinner that repenteth. Joy shall be ifa hea- 
ven over one sinner that repenteth, more than 
over ninety and nine just persons which need no 
repentance. 

Come out from among them, and be ye sepa- 
rate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean 
thing ; and I will receive you, and will be a Fa- 
ther unto you, and ye shall be my sons and 
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 

Awake to righteousness, and sin not. Awake 
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and 
Christ shall give thee life. Come unto me ajl 
ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will 
give you rest, 

I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me 
shall never hunger : and he that believeth on me 
£>hall never thirst. 

Quench not the Spirit. Grieve not the Holy 
Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the 
day of redemption. The fruit of the Spirit is in 
all goodness, and righteousness, and truth ; prov- 
ing what is acceptable unto the Lord. 

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he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, 
and do that which is lawful and right, he shall 
surely live, he shall not die. All his transgres- 
sions that he hath committed, they shall not be 
mentioned unto him : in his righteousness that 
ke hath done he shall live. 

Having, therefore, these promises, dearly be- 
loved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness 
of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the 
fear of God. 

Leaving the principles of the doctrine of 
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying 
again the foundation of repentance from dead 
works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine 
of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of 
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judg- 
ment. 

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet 
unto thy testimonies. 

I will arise, and go to my father, and will say 
unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven 
and before thee, and am no more worthy to be 
called thy son. 

I acknowledge my transgressions ; and my sin 
is ever before me. 

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is 
faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the 
head there is no soundness in it; but wourds, 
and bruises, and putrifying sores. 

I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. 

Heputteth his mouth in the dust, if so be 
there may be hope. 

Let us search and try our ways, and turn 
again to the Lord. 

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Hide thy face from my sins ; and blot out all 
mine iniquities. 

Cast me not away from thy presence 5 and 
take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have 
borne chastisement, I will not offend any more : 
that which I see not teach thou me ; if I have 
done iniquity, I will do no more. 

The time past of our lives may suffice us to 
have wrought the will of the Gentiles. It is high 
time to awake out of sleep. The night is far 
spent, the day is at hand : let us therefore cast 
off* the works of darkness, and let us put on the 
armour of light. 

Yet a little while is the light with you 2 walk 
while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon 
you. 

As he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, 
and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and an- 
swered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have 
a convenient season I will call for thee. 

Behold now is the accepted time 3 behold now 
is the day of salvation. 

Choose you this day whom ye will serve. 
He is our God. As the Holy Ghost saith, To- 
day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your 
hearts. 

Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and 
forbearance, and long-suffering ; not knowing 
that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repent- 
ance ? but after thy hardness and impenitent 
heart, treasurest up unto thy self wrath against 
the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous 
judgment of God. 

Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade 
men. We are ambassadors for Christ, as though 



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God did beseech you by us ; we pray you in 
Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 



CHAP. LXXIL 

RESURRECTION, APPEARANCE, AND ASCENSION 
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

Behold, there was a great earthquake : for 
the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, 
and came and rolled back the stone from the 
door, and sat upon it. His countenance was 
like lightning, and his raiment was white as snow. 
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and 
became as dead men. 

The first day of the week cometh Mary Mag- 
dalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the 
sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from 
the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometli 
to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom 
Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have 
taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and 
we know not where they have laid him. Peter 
therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and 
came to the sepulchre. So they ran both togeth- 
er : and the other disciple did out-run Peter, and 
came first to the sepulchre. And he, stooping 
down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes ly- 
ing : yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon 
Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, 
imd seeth the linen clothes lie, and the napkin 
that was about his head, not lying with the linen 
clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. 
Then went in also that other disciple, which 
came first to the sepulchre, and he saw and be- 
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that he must rise again from the dead. Then 
the disciples went away again unto their own 
home, But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, 
weeping : and, as she wept, she stooped down, 
and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two 
angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and 
the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had 
lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why 
weepest thou ? She saith unto them, Because 
they have taken away my Lord, and I know not 
where they have laid him. And when she had 
thus said, she turned herself back ; and saw 
Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? 
whom seekest thou ? She, supposing him to be 
the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have 
borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid 
him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith 
unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith 
unto him, Rabboni ; which is to say, Master. 
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am 
not yet ascended to my Father : but go to my 
brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto mj 
Father, and your Father ; and to my God, and 
your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the 
d,isciples that she had seen the Lord, and that 
he had spoken these things unto her. 

The angel answered and said unto the women,, 
Fear not ye : for I know that >e seek Jesus, 
which was crucified. He is not here ; for he is 
risen, as he said. Gome, see the pkce where 
the Lord lay: and go quickly, and tell his dis- 
ciples, that he is risen from the dead ; and, be- 
hoid, he goeth before you into Galilee: there 
shall ye see him : lo 1 have told you. And they 
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and great j^y; and did run to bring his disciples 
word. An I, as they went to tell his disciples, 
behold, Jesus met them, saying, Ail hail. And 
they came, and held him by the feet, and wor- 
shipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, be 
not afraid : go tell my brethren, that they go into 
Galilee, and there shall they see me. 

Now, when they were going, behold, some of 
the watch came into the city, and shewed unto 
the chief priests all the things that were done. 
And when they were assembled with the elders, 
and had taken council, they gave large money 
unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, his disciples 
came by night, and stole him away while we 
slept. And if this come to the governors ears, 
we will persuade him, and secure you. So they 
took the monev, and did as they were taught: 
and this saying is commonly reported among the 
Jews until this day. 

Behold, two of them went that same day to a 
village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusa- 
lem about threescore furlongs. And they talked 
together of all these things which had happened. 
And it came to pass, that, while they communed 
together, and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, 
and went with them. But their eyes were hoi- 
den, that they should not know him. And he 
said unto them, What manner of communications 
are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, 
and are sad ? And the one of them whose name 
was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, Art thou 
only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known 
the things which are come to pass there in these 
days ? And he said unto them, what things ? And 
they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Naza- 
reth, winch was a prophet mighty in deed and 
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word, before God and all the people : and Rout 
the chief priests, and our rulers, delivered him. 
to be condemned to death, and have crucified 
him. But we trusted that it had been he, which 
should have redeemed Israel: and, beside all this, 
to-day is the third day, since these thinge were 
done. Yea, and certain women also of our com- 
pany-made us astonished, which were early at 
the sepulchre ; and when they found not his body, 
they came, saying, That they had also seen a 
vision of angels, which said that he was alive. 
And certain of them which were with us, went to* 
the sepulchre, and found it even so as the womea 
had said ; but him they saw not. Then he said 
unto them, fools, and slow of heart to believe 
all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not 
Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter 
into his glory ? And beginning at Moses, and 
all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all 
the scriptures, the things concerning himself. 
And they drew nigh unto the village, whither 
they went : and he made as though he would have 
gone further. But they constrained him, saying, 
Abide with us : for it is toward evening, and the 
day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with 
them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat 
With them, he took bread, and blessed it, and 
brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were 
opened, and they knew him; and he vanished 
out of their sight. And they said one to anoth- 
er, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he 
talked with us by the way, and while he opened 
to us the' scriptures ? 

The same day at evening, being the first day 
of the week, when the doors were shut where the 
disciples wereasst iibled, for fear of the Jews* 



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came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saitli 
unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had 
so said, he shewed unto them his hands, and his 
side. Then were the disciples glad when the)" 
saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, 
Peace be unto you : as my Father hath sent me, 
even so send I you. And when he had said this, 
he breathed on them, and he saith unto them, Re- 
ceive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye 
remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose 
soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 

And they rose up the same hour, and returned 
to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered to- 
gether, and them that were with them, saying, 
The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared ta 
Simon. And they told what things were done 
in the way, and how he was known of them in 
breaking of bread. And, as they thus spake, 
Jesus himself stood in the midsf of them, and 
saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they 
were terrified, and affrighted, and supposed that 
they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, 
Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise 
in your hearts ? Behold my hands, and my feet, 
that it is I myself: handle me, and see ; for a 
spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. 
And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them 
his hands and his feet. And while they yet he- 
lievednot, for joy, and wondered, he said unto 
them, have ye here any meat? And they gave 
him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honey 
comb. And he took it, and did eat before them. 
And he said unto them, These are the words 
-which I spake unto you, while I was yet with 
you, that all things must be fulfilled which 
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prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 
Then opened he their understanding, that they 
might understand the scriptures, and said unto 
thf m, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved 
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, the 
third day; and that repentance and remission of 
sins should be preached in his name among all 
nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are 
witnesses of these things. And. behold. I yend 
the promise of my Father upon vou : but tarry 
ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued 
with power from on high. 

Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, 
was not with them when Jesus came. The other 
disciples, therefore, said unto him, We have seen 
the Lord. J3ut he said unto them, Except I shall 
see in his hands the print of the nails, and put 
my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust 
my hand into his side, 1 will not believe. And 
after eight days, again his disciples were within, 
and Thomas with them : then came Jesus, xhe 
doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, 
Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, 
Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; 
and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my 
side : and be not faithless, btit believing. And 
Thomas answered, and said unto him. My Lord, 
and my God. Jesus saith unto him Thomas, be- 
cause thou hast seen me* thou hast believed : bless- 
ed are they that have not seen, and jet have be- 
lieved. 

After that, he was seen of above five hundred 
brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain 
unto this present : but some are fallen asleep. 

The eleven disciples went away int# G: lilee, 
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And when they saw him, they worshipped him ; 
but some doubted. And Jesus came, and spake 
unto them, saying, All power is given unto me 
in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and 
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name 
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost 5 teaching them to observe all things what- 
soever I have commanded you : and, lo, I am 
with you alway, even unto the end of the world. 
Amen. 

After that, he was seen of James ; then of 
all the apostles. To whom also he shewed him 
self alive after his passion, by many infallible 
proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speak- 
ing of die things pertaining to the kingdom of 
God : and, being assembled together with them, 
commanded them, that they should not depart 
from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of th. 
Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 

He led them out as far as to Bethany^ and he 
lifted up his hands., and blessed them. And it 
came to pass, while he blessed them, he was 
parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 

And, while tbey looked steadfastly toward 
heaven, as he went up, behold, two men stood 
by them in white apparel ; which also said, Ye 
men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven ? This same Jesus, which is taken up 
from you into heaven, shall so come in like man- 
ner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 

And they worshipped him ? and returned to 
Jerusalem with great joy ; and were continually 
in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. 

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of 
David was raised from the dead, according to 
my gospeh 

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I delivered unto you first of all, that which I 
also received, how that Christ died for our sins, 
according to the scriptures : arid that he was 
buried, and that he rose again the third day, ac- 
cording to the scriptures. 

Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked 
up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of 
God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of 
God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, 
and the Son of man standing on the right hand 
of God. 

Jesus Christ is gone into heaven, and is on the 
right hand of God ; angels and authorities and 
powers being made subject unto him. 

If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right 
ha&d of God. 



CHAP. LXXIIL 

RETRIBUTION. 

We know that all things work together for 
good to them that love God. 

If they obey and serve hinuthey shall spend their 
days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 

I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his 
seed begging bread. 

The face of the Lord is against them that do 
evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye 
be followers of that which is good. 

Surely I know that it shall be well with them 
that fear God : but it shall not be well with the 
wicked. 

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Evil pursueth sinners : but to the righteous 
good shall be repaid. 

The Wicked man travaileth with pain all hi? 
days, and the number of years is hidden to the 
oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears : in 
prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 

The soul thatsinneth, it shall die. The son 
shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither 
shall the father bear the iniquity of the son„ 
The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon 
him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be 
upon him. Every one shall die for his own ini- 
qu ty. 

He that doeth wrong shall receive for the 
wrong which he hath done : and there is no re- 
spect of persons. 

They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness, 
reap the same. 

Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for 
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 
reap. For he that soweth to the flesh, shall of 
the flesh reap corruption : but he that soweth to 
the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins 
even to give every man according to his ways, 
and according to the fruit of his doings. 

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after 
this the judgment. 

God hath appointed a day in which he will 
judge the world in righteousness, by that man 
whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given 
assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised 
him from the dead. 

Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall 
be much required. That servant which knew 
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did according to his will, shall be beaten with 
in^vy stripes. But he that knew not, and did 
commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten 
with few stripes. 

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it 
not, to him it is sin. 

If we sin wilfully after that we have received 
the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no 
more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful look- 
ing for of judgment and fiery indignation, which 
shall devour the adversaries. He that despised 
Moses' law, died without mercy under two or 
three witnesses ; of how much sorer punishment, 
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath 
trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath 
counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he 
was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done 
despite unto the Spirit of grace. 

Fear not them which kill the body, but are not 
able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which 
is able to destroy both body and soul in hell. 

Is not destruction to the wicked ? and a 
strange punishment to the workers of iniqui- 

Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an 
oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do 
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that 
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of 
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor 
branch. But unto you that fear my name, shall 
the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his 
wings. 

The ransomed of the Lord shall return an^ 
eome to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy 
iapon their heads : they shall obtain joy and 
aladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 



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The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abomi- 
nable, and murderers, and adulterers, and sor- 
cerers, and idolaters, and ail liars, shall have 
their part in the lake which burnetii with fire 
and brimstone ; which is the second death. 

The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from 
heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming tire, 
taking vengeance on them that know not God, 
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ : who shall be punished with everlasting 
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his power. 



CHAP. LXXIV. 

RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst 
after righteousness : for they shall be filled. 

Seek righteousness. Blessed are they that 
keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness 
at all times. Righteousness exalteth a nation. 

Ofter the sacrifices of righteousness, and put 
your trust in the Lord. He loveth him that fol- 
io we th after righteousness. 

The righteous shall be glad in the Lord. Be 
glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye righteous. The 
Lord upholdeth the righteous. He shall never 
sutler the righteous to be moved. He heareth 
the prayer of the righteous. The desire of the 
righteous shall be granted. 

The righteousness of the perfect shall di- 
rect his way. The way of the righteous is 
made plain. The righteous shall hold on his 
way. 

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them. The righteous is delivered out of trouble* 
The seed of the righteous shall be delivered. 

The thoughts of the righteous are right. The 
lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. 
The desire of the righteous is only good. The 
light of the righteous rejoiceth. The hope of the 
righteous shall be gladness. The fruit of the 
righteous is a tree of life. The labour of the 
righteous tendeth to life. 

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be 
found in the way of righteousness. 

In the house of the righteous is much treasure. 
The house eff the righteous shall stand. The 
voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the taber- 
nacles of the righteous. 

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. 
Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the 
earth. 

Thou, Lord, will bless the righteous ; with fa- 
vour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. 

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with 
him : for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 

Verily there is a reward for the righteous. * To 
him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure 
re w aid. 

Righteousness tendeth to life. Righteousness 
delivereth from death. 

The work of righteousness shall be peace ; 
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and 
assurance for ever. 

The righteous shall be in everlasting remem- 
brance. The righteous is an everlasting foun- 
dation. 

The righteous hath hope in his death. Let me 
die the death of the righteous, and let my last 
end bp like his* 



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CHAP. LXXV. 

SABBATH. 

The heavens and the earth were finished, and 
all the host of them. And on the seventh day, 
God ended his work which he had made : and 
he rested the seventh day from all his work 
which he had made. And God blessed the 
seventh day and sanctified it; because that in 
it he had rested from all his work which God 
created and made. 

Six days shall work be done y but the seventh 
day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; it 
is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. 

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the 
seventh day thou shalt rest : that thine ox ma/ 
rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the 
stranger may be refreshed. 

Hallow my sabbaths ; and they shall be a sign 
between me and you, that ye may know that I 
am the Lord your God. 

Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as tha 
Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 

It is lawful to do well on the sabbath-days. 

Jesus said unto them, What man shall there 
be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if 
it fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, will he not 
lay hold of it and lift it out ?■ 

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. 

The Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath- 
day. 

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath » 
from doing thy pleasure on my holy day: and 
call the sabbath a Delight, and the Holy of the 
Lord, Honourable ; and shalt honour him, rtot 



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doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own 
pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then 
thou shalt delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will 
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the 
earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob 
thy father ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spo- 
ken it. 

Blessed is the man that keepeth the sabbath 
from polluting it. 



CHAP. LXXVI. 

SCRIPTURES. 

The world by wisdom knew not God. 

An highway shall be there, and a way, and it 
shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean 
shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : 
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err 
therein. 

All scripture is given by inspiration of God 3 
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for 
correction, for instruction in righteousness. 

Whatsoever tilings were written aforetime, was 
written for our learning, that we through patience 
and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 

These are written, that ye might believe that 
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God ; and that 
believing, ye might have life through his name. 

We have a more sure word of prophecy ; 
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto 
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day 
dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts; 
knowing this first, that no prophecy is of any 
private interpretation. For the prophecy came 
not in old time by the will of man : but holy 



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men of God spake as they were moved by the 
Holy Ghost. 

God who commanded the light to shine out of 
darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the 
light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the 
face of Jesus Christ. 

Be mindful of the words which were spoken 
before by the holy prophets, and of the corn* 
mandment of us the apostles of the Lord and 
Saviour. 

Search the scriptures ; for in them ye think 
ye have eternal life : and they are they which 
testify of me. These were more noble, in that 
they searched the scriptures daily. 

Jesus said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing 
the scriptures, nor the power of God. 

Account that the long-suftering of our Lord is 
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also 
according to the wisdom given unto him hath 
written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speak- 
ing in them of these things 5 in which are some 
things hard to be understood, which they that 
are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also . 
the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 

Is not my word like as a tire ? saith tiie Lord ; 
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in 
pieces ? 

The word of God is quick, and powerful, and 
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even 
to the dividing asunder of soul and Spirit, and 
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of 
the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

Thy word is truth. Thou hast magnified thy 
word above all thy name. The words of the 
Lord are pure words. Every word of God is 
pure. 

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Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed r. 
but he that feareth the commandment shall be 
rewarded. 

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in 
all wisdom. 

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in 
the doctrine of Christ, hath not God : he that 
abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both 
the Father and the Son. 

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the 
soul : the testimony of the Lord issure y making 
wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are- 
right, rejoicing the heart y the commandment of 
the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 

The law is holy, and the commandment holjy 
and just, and good. 

I hate vain thoughts : but thy law do I love. 

I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things 
to be right. 

The word of the Lord endureth forever. And 
this is the word which by the gospel is preached 
unto you. 

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all 
be fulfilled. 

Refrain from these men, and let them alone % 
for if this counsel, or this work, be of men, it 
will come to nought : but if it be of God, ye can- 
not overthrow it : lest haply ye be found even 
to fight against God. 

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his 
way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy 
word. 

We thank God without ceasing, because, when 
ye received the word of God which ye heard of 
tf£, ye received it ntft as the word of men, but a 



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it is of truth, the word of God, which effectually 
worketh also in you that believe. 

Receive with meekness the engrafted word, 
which is able to save your souls. If any be a 
hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like 
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 
■for he beh old eth himself, and goeth his way, and 
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he 
was. 

Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart, 
and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon 
your hand, that they may be as frontlets between 
your eyes. And ye shall teach them your chil- 
dren, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine 
house, and when thou walkest by the way, when 
thou Rest down, and wlien thou risest up. And 
thou shalt write them upon the door posts of 
thine house, and upon thy gates. 

Ye shall not add unto the word which I com-* 
jnand you., neither shall ye diminish aught from 
it, that ye may keep the commandments of the 
Lord your God which I command you. 

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove 
thee, and thou be found a liar. 

I testify unto every man that heareth the 
words of the prophecy of this book, if any man 
shall add unto these things, God shall add unto 
him the plagues that are written in this book : 
and if any man shall take away from the words 
of the book of this prophecy, God shall take 
away his part out of the book of life, and out 
of the holy city, and from the things which are 
written in this book. 

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ : for 
it is the power of God unto salvation, to every 
one that believeth. 



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The holy scriptures are able to make thee 
wise unto salvation, through faith which is in 
Christ Jesus. 

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh : for 
if they escaped not who refused him that spake 
on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we 
turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. 



CHAP. LXXVII. 

SINCERITY AND TRUTH. 

Deceive not with thy lips. Meddle not with 
him that flattereth with his lips. 

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth 
a net for his feet. 

Do not deceive me. He that worketh deceit 
shall not dwell within my house : he that telleth 
lies shall not tarry in my sight. 

1 have not sat with vain persons, neither will 
I go in with dissemblers. 

Take heed that no man deceive you. Let no 
man deceive himself. 

Love the truth. Lie not one to another. 
Putting away lying, speak every man the truth 
with his neighbour. 

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee : bind 
them about thy neck \ write them upon the table 
of thine heart: so shait thou find favour and 
good understanding in the sight of God and man. 

How forcible are right words. Trust ye not 
in lying words. The lip of truth shall be estab- 
lished forever: but a lying tongue is but for a 
moment. 

The mouth of them that speak lies shall be 
stopped c 



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Buy the truth and sell it not. Lie not against 
£he truth. Speak ye every raan the truth to his 
neighbour; execute the judgment of truth. 

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot 
profit. Ye shall not lie one to another. 

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath 
conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 

A righteous man hateth lying. He that speak- 
eth truth sheweth forth righteousness. 

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord : but 
they that deal truly are his delight. 

Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out 
half their days. 

He that speaketh lies shall not escape. He 
that speaketh lies shall perish. 

Without are idolaters, and whosoever loveth 
and maketh a lie. 

Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? He 
that speaketh the truth in his heart. 

By lying shall the land mourn. I hate and 
abhor lying. "Remove from me the way of lying. 
Remove far from me vanity and lies. 

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man 

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and 
from a deceitful tonjnie. 



CHAP. LXXVIIL 

STABILITY. 

Let all thy ways be established. Be not soon 
shaken in mind. 

Meddle not with them that aregiven to change : 
neither be ye of doubtful mind. 

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy 
jthoughta shall be established. 
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Surely a good man shall not be moved for ever. 
The righteous shall not be afraid of evil tidings . 
his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. His heart 
is established, he shall not be afraid. 

Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and 
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by 
the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, where- 
by they lie in wait to deceive. 

Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering;. For 
he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven 
with the wind and tossed. For let not that man 
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

Unstable as water thou shalt not excel. 

Be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abound- 
ing in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye 
know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 

Let every one be fully persuaded in his own 
mind. 

Prove your own selves. Prove all things $ 
hold fast that which is good. 



CHAP. LXXIX. 

TEMPERANCE. 

Add to knowledge, temperance. 

Every man that striveth for the mastery is 
temperate in all things. 

Live soberly. Use this world, as not abusing it. 

Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your 
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunk- 
enness. 

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morn- 
ing that they may follow strong drink : that con- 
tinue until night, till wine inflame them J 



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Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, 
and men of strength to mingle strong drink ! 

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, 
that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him 
drunken ! 

Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess. 

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging ; and 
whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 

He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. 

Be not among winebibbers : among riotous 
caters of flesh : for the drunkard and the glutton 
shall come to poverty. 

1 have written unto you, not to keep company, 
if any man that is called a brother be a drunkard* 

Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow? who hath 
contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath 
wounds without cause ? who hath redness of 
eves ? They that tarry long at the wine. At 
the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth 
like an adder : thine eyes shall behold strange 
women, and thine heart shall utter perverse 
things : yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down 
in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the 
top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt 
thou say, and I was not sick ; they have beaten 
me, and I felt it not : when shall I awake ? I will 
seek it again. 

They have erred through wine, and through 
strong drink are out of the way; they err in 
vision, they stumble in judgment. 

Let us walk honestly as in the day: not in 
rioting and drunkenness. 

Let us watch and be sober. For they that 
sleep, sleep in the night ; and they that be drun- 
ken, are drunken in the night. But let us wfc^ 



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are of the day be sober, putting on the breast- 
plate of faith and love ; and for an helmet the 
hope of salvation. 



CHAP. LXXX. 

THEFT AND TRESPASS. 

Ye shall not steal. Let him that stole, steal 
?io more. 

Every one that stealeth shall be cut off. The 
curse it shall enter into the house of the thief. 

By stealing shall the land mourn. 

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consent- 
edst with him : but I will reprove thee. Whoso 
is partner with a thief, hatethhis own soul. 

In the heavens no thief approacheth. 

Lord who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? He 
that doeth not evil to his neighbour. 

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing 
hedwelleth securely by thee. 

Some violently take away flocks, and feed 
thereof. He that killeth a beast shall make it 
good. 

He shall restore that which he took violently 
away. 

Some remove the land -marks. Thou shalt not 
remove thy neighbour's land -mark, which they of 
old have set in thine inheritance. 
? Remove not the ancient land-mark which thy 
fathers have set; and enter not into the fields of 
the fatherless. 

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's 
land-mark: and all the people shall say, A- 
men. 



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CHAP. LXXXI. 

VIGILANCE. 

Be vigilant. Watch thou in all things. 

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into tempt- 
ation. 

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same 
with thanksgiving. 

Let us watch and he sober. 

Be watchful, and strengthen the things that 
remain. 

Blessed is he that watcheth. 

Watch, for ye know not what hour your Lord 
doth come. 

Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, 
when he cometh, shall find watching. 

Watch ye, and pray always, that ye may be ac- 
counted worthy to escape all these things that shall 
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man* 



CHAP. LXXXIL 

WICKEDNESS. 

A man shall not be established by wickedness,, 
Sin is a reproach to any people. 

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination 
to the Lord. 

The mouth of the wicked pourethout evil things. 

T'ie wicked are like the troubled sea. when it 
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him. 
The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. The 
expectation of the wicked shall perish. The way 
of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. 



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The wicked shall not be unpunished. The 
wicked is driven away in his wickedness. The 
wicked shall fall by nis own wickedness. The 
wicked is reserved to the day of destruction. 

God is angry with the wicked every day. The 
wicked will he destroy. Upon the wicked he 
shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an 
horrible tempest 5 this shall be the portion of 
their cup. 

The sacrifice of the wicked is an ambomina- 
tion to the Lord. 

Wickedness overthroweth the sinner. God 
overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. 

The wicked are overthrown and are not. 

The Lord is far from the wicked. Salvation 
is far from the wicked. 

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 

My son, if sinners entice thee consent thou not. 

If ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be con- 
sumed. 

Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with him s 
for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 

Evil shall slay the wicked : and they that hate 
the righteous shall be desolate. 

When a wdeked man dieth, his expectation 
shall perish. 

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to 
an end. 



CHAP. LXXXIII. 

WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING. 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis- 
dom, and the knowledge of the Holy is under- 
stending. 



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The fear of the Lord that is wisdom ; and to 
depart from evil is understanding. 

Incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply 
thine heart to understanding. 

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the 
man that getteth understanding. For the mer- 
chandize of it is better than the merchandize of 
silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She 
is more precious than rubies : and all the things 
thou canst desire are not to be compared unto 
her. Length of days is in her right hand ; and 
in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways 
are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are 
peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay 
hold upon her : and happy is every one that re~ 
taineth her. 

Get wisdom, get understanding : forget it not ; 
forsake her not, and sh« shall preserve thee : 
love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is 
the principal thing 5 therefore get wisdom : and 
with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt 
her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring 
thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 
She shall give to thine head an ornament of 
grace : a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 

Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by 
it there is profit to them that see the sun. For 
wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence : 
hut the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom 
giveth life to them that have it. 

Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless 
the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his wordfe 
are not heard. Wisdom is better than weapons 
of war. 

A man shall be commended according to his 
wisdom. 



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Keep sound wisdom. Fools despise wisdom. 

Wisdom excelleth folly as far as light excelled 
darkness. 

Say unto-- wisdom, Thou art my sister; and 
call understanding thy kinswoman. 

A wise man's heart discerneth both tinie and 
judgment. 

The words of wise men are heard in quiet. 

A wise man will hear, and will increase learn- 
ing ; and a man of understanding will attain unto 
wise counsels. 

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to 
depart from the snares of death. 

The well-spring of wisdom is as a flowing 
brook. 

Understanding is a well-spring of life unta 
him that hath it. 

Good understanding giveth favour. 

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own sou! > 
he that keepeth understanding shall find good. 

I applied mine heart to know, and to search^ 
and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things 
and to know the wickedness of folly, even olr 
foolishness and madness. 

The fool shall be servant to the wise in heart 

He "that walketh with wise men shall be wise £ 
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. 

The Lord give thee wisdom* The Lord give 
thee understanding in all things. 

If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, 
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth 
not ; and it shall be given him* 

So teach us to number our days, that we may 
apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

Walk in wisdom towards them that are with - 
out* redeeming; the thrie. 



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Be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 

I would have you wise unto that which is good, 
and simple concerning evil. 

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love sim- 
plicity? and fools hate knowledge. 

Fools make a mock at sin. Go from the pres- 
ence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not 
in him the lips of knowledge. 

The wise in heart will receive commandments : 
Kit a prating fool shall fall. 

In the lips of him that hath understanding 
wisdom is found : but a rod is for the back of 
him that is void of understanding. 

A fool layeth open his folly. A fools voice is 
known by the multitude of words. The begin- 
ning of the words of his mouth is foolishness : and 
the end of his talk is mischievous vanity. A fool 
i^tereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it 
in till afterwards. 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowl- 
edge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 
Fools die for want of wisdom. 

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. 

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil : 
but the f#ol rageth, and is confident. 

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise : 
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. 

Wise men lay up knowledge : but the mouth 
of the foolish is near destruction. 

The wise shall inherit glory : but shame shall 
be the promotion of fools. 

He that winneth souls is wise. 
* They that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
of the firmament ; and they that turn many to 
righteousness as the stars for ever and ever, 
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CHAP. LXXXIV, 



ZEAL. 



Be zealous. It is good to be zealously affected 
always in a good thing. 

As ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that 
ye may excel. 

Ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what careful- 
ness it wrought in you, yea, what vehement 
desire, yea, what zeal ? 

I know the forwardness of your mind, for which 
I boast of you. Your zeal hath provoked very many. 

The Lord saw that there was no man, and 
wondered that there was no intercessor : there- 
fore his arm brought salvation. He was clad with, 
zeal as a cloak. 

The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 

My zeal hath consumed me; because mine 
enemies have forgotten thy words. 

The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Phinehas, 
the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, 
hath turned my wrath away from the children of 
Israel, (while he was zealous for my sake among 
them,) that I consumed not the children of Israel 
in my jealousy. Wherefore say, Behold, I give 
unto him my covenant of peace. And he shall 
have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant 
of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was 
zealous for his God, and made an atonement for 
the children of Israel. 

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of 
Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently 
for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect 
and complete in all the will of God. For I bear 
him record, that he hath a great zeal for you. 



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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold 
nor hot : I would thou were cold or hot, so then, 
because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor 
hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

They have a zeal of God, but not according to 
knowledge. 

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in 
Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in/ this 
city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according 
to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, 
and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this 
day. And I persecuted this way unto the death, 
binding and delivering into prisons both men and 
women. 

Ye have heard of my conversation in time past 
in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure 
1 persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 
and profited in the Jews' religion above many my 
equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly 
zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when 
it pleased God, who called me by his grace, to 
reveal his son in me, that I might preach him 
among the heathen ; immediately 1 conferred not 
with the flesh and blood. They had heard that 
he which persecuted us in times past, now preach- 
ed the faith which once he destroyed. And they 
glorified God in me. 

Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a 
fool) 1 am more : in labours more abundant, in 
stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, 
in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I 
forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with 
rods, once was I stoned, thrice 1 suffered ship- 
wreck \ a night and a day I have been in the deep : 
in journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils 
of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 



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in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in 
perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in 
perils among false brethren ; in weariness and 
painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and 
thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 
Besides those things that are without, that which 
cometh upon me daily, the care of all thechurcheSe 
Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offend- 
ed, and I burn not ? If I must needs glory, I will 
glory of the things which concern mine infirmi- 
ties. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth 
that I lie not. 



CHAP. LXXXV. 

MISCELLANEOUS SELECTION. 

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and car- 
ried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me 
down in the midst of the valley which was full of 
boneso And caused me to pass by them round 
about : and, behold, there were very many in 
the open valley ; and, so, they were very dry. 
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these 
bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou 
knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy, 
upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry 
bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith 
the Lord God unto these bones ; behold, I will 
cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 
and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring 
up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, -and 
put breath in you, -and ye shall live ; and ye shall 
know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as 
I was commanded : and as I prophesied, there 



OF THE BIBLE, £45 

was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones 
came together, bone to his bone. And when I 
beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon 
them, and the skin covered them above : but 
there was no breath in them. Then said he unto 
tne, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of 
man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord 
God ; Come from the four winds, O breath, and 
breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So 
I piophesied as he commanded me, and the breath 
came into them, and they lived, and stood up 
upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 

1 will shew wonders in the heavens and in the 
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The 
sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon 
into blood, before the great and terrible day of 
the Lord come. 

When I heard, my lips quivered at the voice : 
rottenness entered into my bones; and I trembled 
in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. 

How is the gold become dim ! how is the most 
fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary 
are poured out in the top of every street. The 
precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, 
how are they esteemed as earthern pitchers, the 
work of the hands of the potter ! 

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of 
the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God 
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never 
be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from 
generation to generation : neither shall the Ara- 
bian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds 
make their fold there : but the wild beasts of 
the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall 
be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell 
there, and satyrs shall dance there, And the 
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wild beasts of the island shall cry in their des© 
late houses, and dragons in their pleasant pala- 
ces. 

The Lord will make Nmevah a desolation, and 
dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down 
in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations t 
both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in 
the upper lintels of it ; their voice shall sing in 
the windows 5 desolation shall be in the thresh/- 
olds. 

How doth the city sit solitary that was full of 
people! The ways of Zion do mourn, because 
none come to the solemn feasts : all her gates are 
desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins are afflict- 
ed, and she is in bitterness. 

The elders have ceased from the gate, the 
young men from their musick. The joy of our 
heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourn- 
ing. The crown is fallen from our head. 

My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ 
into the voice of them that weep. 

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, 
yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We 
hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst 
thereof. For there they that carried us away 
captive required of us a song ; and they that 
wasted us required of us mirth, saying? Sing us 
one of the songs of Zion. 

Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and 
gone 5 the flowers appear on the earth : the time 
of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of 
the turtle is heard in our land. 



MISCELLANEOUS MORAL SELECTIONS 
FROM THE APOCRYPHA. 

Sect. 1. Great is the truth. She doeth the 
things that are just. Above all things truth beareth 
away the victory. 

In no wise speak against the truth. Be steacU 
fast in thy understanding; and let thy word be 
the same. 

True dealing shall endure far ever. 

Do uprightly all thy life long. For if thou deal 
truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to 
thee, and to all them that live justly. 

Show thyself merciful and just. Let just men 
eat and drink with thee. 

Neglect not to give alms. Do right to the 
widow, be a father unto the fatherless, give to 
the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked* 
heal the broken and weak, be not slow to visit the 
sick, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the 
maimed, and deliver him that sufferetli wrong 
from the hand of the oppressor. 

Give alms of thy substance. If thou hast 
abundance, give alms accordingly : if thou hast 
but a little, be not afraid to give according to that 
little. Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of 
thy garments to them that are naked ; and let 
not thine eye be envious when thou givest alms. 

Defraud not the poor of his Jiving, and make 
not the needy eyes to wait long. Make not a 
hungry soul sorrowful ; neither provoke a man 
in his distress. Add not more trouble to a hear<t 
that is vexed ; and defer not to give to him that 



248 MORAL SELECTION 

is in need. Reject not the supplication of the 
afflicted ; neither turn away thy face from a poor 
man. Turn not away thine eye from the needy 
and give him none occasion to curse thee. 

There can no good come to him that is always 
occupied in evil, nor to him that giveth no alms. 
Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, 
that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity. 

Lend thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay 
thou thy neighbour again in due season. Keep thy 
word, and deal faithfully with him, and thou shaft 
always find the thing that is necessary for thee. 
Many when a thing was lent them, reckoner] it 
to be found, and put them to trouble that helped 
them. Till he hath received, he will kiss aman's 
hand ; and for his neighbour's money he will 
speak submissively : but when he should repay 
he will prolong the time, and return words of 
grief, and complain of the time. Many there- 
fore, have refused to lend for other men's ill- 
dealing, fearing to be defrauded. 

Be not surety above thy power 3 for if thou be 
surety take care to pay. 

Sect. 2. Set not thy heart upon thy goccls. 
There is not a more wicked thing than a covet- 
ous man 3 for such an one setteth his own soul to 
sale. 

Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoard- 
ed up, what profit is in them both ? 

Hate not laborious work. To labour, and be 
content with what a man hath, is a sweet life. 
Go on with thy business in meekness. 
Eat, as itbecometh a man, those things which 
are set before thee ; and devour not. 

A very little is sufficient for a man well nur- 
tured. 



VROM THE APOCRYPHA. 249 

Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating. 

Drunkenness diminisheth strength, and maketk 
wounds. 

Better is the poor, being sound and strong of 
constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in 
his body. 

In lewdness is decay and great want: for 
lewdness is the mother of famine. 

Envy and wrath shorten the life. 

Sect. 3. Let reason go before every enter- 
prise, and counsel before every action. 

Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise 
not any counsel that is profitable. 

Consult not with one that suspecteth thee; 
neither with a coward, in matters of war; nor with 
a buyer of selling ; nor with an envious man, of 
thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man, touch- 
ing kindness : nor with the slothful, for any work. 

Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep 
counsel. 

Be in peace with many ; nevertheless have but 
one counsellor of a thousand. 

Sect. 4. Be not a hypocrite in the sight of 
men, and take good heed what thou speakest. 

Refrain not to speak when there is occasion to 
do good. 

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much 
in a few words. 

Open not thine heart to every man. 

Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds 
slack and remiss. 

He that can rule his tongue shall live without 
strife. 

Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not. 

Be circumspect in all that thou dpest, and be 
wise in all thv conversation- 



i250 MORAL SELECTION 

Accustom not thy mouth to swearing ; neither 
use thyself to the naming of the Holy One. He 
that sweareth and nameth God continually, shall 
not be faultless. 

Blame not before thou hast examined the truth : 
understand first, and then rebuke. 

Answer not before thou hast heard the cause ; 
neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk. 
Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; 
and with patience give answer. 

Profess not the knowledge that thou hast not. 
If thou hast understanding, answer thy neigh- 
bour ; if not, lay thine hand upon thy mouth. 

It is much better to reprove than to be angry 
secretly; and he that confesseth his fault shall be 
preserved from hurt. 

An unseasonable tale will alway9 be in the 
mouth of the unwise. 

Reproach not a man that turneth from sin. 
Sect. 5. Admonish a friend, it may be he hath 
not done it ; and if he have done it, that he do it no 
more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not 
said it; and if he have, that he speak it not again. 
Admonish a friend : for many times it is a slander, 
and believe not every tale. There is one that slip- 
peth in his speech, but not from his heart ; and 
"who is he that hath not offended with his tongue ? 
Forsake not an old friend. Nothing doth coun- 
tervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is 
invaluable. 

Change not a friend for any good. Love thy 
friend, and be faithful unto him. 

A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and 
an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. 

Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy, being 
dead, but remember that we all die. 



FROM THE APOCRYPHA. 251 

Sect. 6. A mean estate is not always to be 
contemned ; nor the rich that is foolish to be had 
in admiration. 

He that is hasty to give credit is light-minded. 

There is one that is wise, and teacheth many, 
and yet is unprofitable to himself. 

Be not curious in unnecessary matters. 

Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that 
catcheth at a shadow, and followeth the wind. 

Commend not a man for his beauty ; neither 
abhor a man for his outward appearance. 

Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and 
exalt not thyself in the day of honour. 

Be ashamed of revealing secrets. Whoso dis- 
covereth secrets loseth his credit. 

Do no secret thing before a stranger ; for thou 
knowest not what he will bring forth. 

Blessed is he whose conscience hath not con- 
demned him. 

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee 
betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps 
of his door. 

Love righteousness : for righteousness is im- 
mortal. 

Sect. 7. Let thy soul love a good servant, and 
defraud him not of liberty. 

Let not the wages of any man which hath 
wrought for thee, tarry with thee. 

Love thy brethren. Hast thou children ? In- 
struct them, and bow down their neck from their 
youth. 

Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and 
friend, power over thee while thou livest, and 
give not thy goods to another ; lest it repent thee, 
and thou entreat for the same again. As long as 
fhou livest, and hast breath in tboe, give n$£ 



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thyself over to any. For better it is that thy 
children should seek to thee, than that thou 
shouldst stand to their courtesy. At the time 
when thou shall end thy days, and finish thy life ? 
distribute thine inheritance. 

Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife. 

A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and 
he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace. 

Hast thou a wife after thy mind ? forsake her 
not* A.good wife is a good portion. 

Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom and 
teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.. 

Well is he that dwelleth with a wife of under- 
standing. 

Marry thy daughter, and so slialt thou have 
performed a weighty matter ; but give her to a 
man of understanding. 

Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and 
forget not the sorrows of thy mother. How canst 
thou recompense them the things they have dona 
for thee ? 

Honour thy mother all the days of thy life, and 
do that which shall please her, and grieve her not. 
Remember that she saw many dangers for thee* 

Help thy father in his age, and grieve him not 
as long as he liveth. And if his understanding 
fail, have patience with him; and despise him 
not when thou art in thy full strength : for the 
relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten* 



INDEX 



>T0 THE TEXTS CONTAINED IN THE WORK. 

Each paragraph of the Index comprises a page of the work, 
except those designated by an asterisk which comprise more, 
and commences with the number of the page ; each sentence 
of the Index comprises a paragraph of the work, and except the 
first sentence in each paragraph which is designated by the 
small letter p, commences with the number of the paragraph 
in each page, where more than one paragraph occurs ; and the 
order of the texts in each sentence of the Index, where more 
than one text occurs, or where any sentence of the work is 
composed of more than one text, is uniformly according to the 
order of the sentences in each paragraph of the work, 

P 15, p 1, 1 John iv 16. 2, Ps cxvi 5. 3, James 
v 11, Ps cxi 4, Luke vi 35. 4, Num xiv 18, Deut 
vii9. 5, Psciiil3. 6, Luke i 50, Ps cxlv 9. 7, 
NehixlT. 8, 2 Pet iii 9. 9, Jer xliv 26. 

Pl6,pl,PsIxxxv2. 2, Jer x 10. 3, 2 Cor i 18, 
Ps cxix 142, Rev xv 3. 4, Ps cxvii 2. 5, Ps exxxix 
14. 6, 1 Cor x 13, Lam iii 23. 7, Ps xxxvi 5, cxix 
90. 8, Ps cxix 68, cxlv 9, Mat xix 17. 9, Ps xxxiii 
5. 10, Ps Iii l,Zechixl7. 11, Ps cxi 9. 12, Sam 
yi 20. 13, Exod xv 11. 14, Ps cxlv 17. 15, Psxcvii 

2. 16, Ps xcvii 6. 17, Ps cxix 142. 18, 1 John iii 

3, Ps xii 6, xix 8. 19, Habi 13. 20, Job xxxvi 26, 
5. 

P 17, p 1, Ps cxlv 3. 2, Ps cxlvii 5, Isa xl 28. 5, 
Isa xxviii 29, Jude 25. 4, James iii 17. 5, Ps xciv 
9, 10. 6,Ps xxxiii ll,Prov xxi SO. 7,Isaxlv 10. 
22 



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8, Isa xiv *7. 9, Job xxii 23. 10, Ps cxiii 4. 11, 
Isa xi 17. 12, Rev xv 3. 13, Ps Ixxxix 11. 14, 
Deut x 14. 

P 18, p 1, Heb Hi 4. 2, Gen i 1. 5, Proviii 19. 

4, Job xxvi 13. 5, Ps civ 24. 6, Rom xi 36. 7, 
Gen i 27, Ps cxix 73. 8, Acts xvii 25. 9, Rev iv 
ll,Nehix6. 10, Acts xvii 28. 11, Job x 11. 12, 
Ps Ixvi 8, 9. 13, Job xii 9. 14, Ps cxxvii 1, 2. 
15, Job v 6. 16, Mat x 29. 

P19, p l,Psciv 14. 2, Ps cxlv 15, 16. 3, Ps 
lxv 8. 4, Ps xcvii 1. 5, Ps ciii 19, cxlvi 10. 6, 
Ps cxlv 13. 7, Dan iv 35. 8, Dan iv 17. 9, Ps 
xxii 28. 10, Pro v xxi 1. 11, John iv 24, Acts vii 
48, 1 Kings viii 27. 

P 20, p 1, Ps cxxxix 7. 2, Isa xlvi 9, Rom iv 

7. 3, Acts xv 18, Hebiv 13, John i 5. 4, Ps cxxxix 

11. 5, Prow 21. 6, Jerxviil7. 7,Ps xxxiii 13. 

8, Psvii9. 9, Provxv II < 

P 21, p 1 , 1 Sam ii 3. 2, Ezek xi 5. 3, Jer xxiii 

24. 4, Isa xxix 15. 5, Prov xv 3, 1 Chr xxvii 9, 
Job xxxiv 22. 6, Deut vi 4. 7, 1 Cor viii 4, Gal iii 
20. 8, 1 John v 9. 9, Ps lxviii20. 10, Ps xcviii 

5. 1 1, 1 Tim iv 10. 12. Ps lxv 5. 13, Ps Ixxv 7, 
vii 8. 14, Acts xvii 81. 15, Eccl xii 14. 16, 
Rom ii 11. 

P22,p 1, Mai iii 6. 2, James i 17. 3, Num 
xxiii 17. 4, Dan vi 26, Isa xl 8, Eccl iii 14. 5,Ps 
xc 4. 6, 2 Pet iii 8, Ps cxi 27. 7. Exod xxxiii 20. 
8, Rom i 20. 9, Gen xvii 1, Rev xix 6. 10, I Chr 
xxix 11. 1 1, Ps cxlvii 5, Luke i 37, Mat xix 26. 

12, Ps cxlviii 5. 13, Ps xxxiii 6, 7, Gen i 3. 

P 23, p 1, Dan iv 55^ Isa xiv 27. 2, Isa xl 22, 
Job ix 6. 3, Isa xl 28. 4, Ita xl 12. 5, Job xxxviu 

25. 6, 2 Sam xxii 14, Ps xxix 3, Job xxxvii 22. 
7, Ps xcvii 4, 5. 8, Ps lxviii 8. 9, Job xxvi 11. 
10, Job xxvi 14, Ps lxviii S5. 



INDEX. 255 

P 24, p 1, Nah i 3. 2, Ps cvii 25, 29. 3, Ps Ixviii 

4, 3% 35. 4, 2 Sam xxii 10. 5, Ilab iii 4. 6. Hab 
iii 7, 10. 7, hxod iii 14. 8, Rev xxii 13. 9, Ps cii 

12. 10, Deut xxxiii 27. 11, Psxc 2. 

P 25, p 1, Ps cxlv 10, * Chr xvi 24. 2, Ps xix 

1. 3, Rom xi 33. 4, Jobxi 7. 5, Job xxxvii 23. 6, 
Job xiii 11. 7, Ps viii I. 8, Deut xxxii 4, Ps Ixviii 

5, Rom xv 5, 33, Jer xxxii 18, Deut v 26, Col i 15, 
Rom i 28, isa xl 28. 9, 2 Sam xxii 31, Deut xxxii 
4, Mat v 48. 10, Neh ix 5. 11, Ps ciii 1. 12, Ps 
Ixviii 35, Dan ii 20. 13, Neh ix 5. 

P 26, p 1, Isa vi 3. 2, Rev vii 12. 3, Isa ix 6. 
4, Gen iii 15. 5, Gen xlix 10. 6, Num. xxiv 17. 
7, Zeeli iii 8. 

P 27, p 1, Isa xi 1. 2, Isa Ixi 1. 3, Isa xl S. 
4, Isa ii o. 5, Mic vi 2. 

P 28, p 1, Luke ii 10. 2, 1 Tim ii 5. 3, John, 
xi i5, 2 Tim i 10. 4, John iii 16. 5, John xiv 6. 

P29,p 1, John i 28. 2, John i 1, 14. 3, Col i 

13. 4, Rev iv 11. 5, 1 Cor i 24. 6, Mat xxviii 18. 
7, John x 17. 8, Heh i 1. 

P 30, p 1, Mat xi 24, John iii 35. 2, Mat iii 16. 
3, Mat xxvi 63. 4, Col ii 9, i 19. 5, John xiv 10, 
x 30, xiv 11,9,7. 6, Phil ii 6. 

P 31, p 1, Heb xiii 8. 2, Rev i 8. 3, Heb i 5. 

P32,p 1, John i 18. 2, Mat xi 27. 3, John iy 
28. 4, Rev ii 23. 5, Rom viii 34. 6, Jolmv 22. 
7, John xviii 36. 8, Luke ii 41. 

P 33, pi, John iv 34. 2, John v 30. 3, Mat xi 

2. 4, John vii 46. 5, Acts x 36. 6, Heb vii 24. 

P 34, p 1, Mat xi29. 2, 1 Pet ii 21. 3, Luke 
xxii 41 . 4, Heb v 7. 5, 2 Cor viii 9. 6, Mat viii 
20. 7, Isa liii 3. 

P 55, p 1, John xiii 3, 12. 2, Mark x 13. 

P 36, p 1, John xi S2. 2, John xvii 1. 3 3 Luke 
xxiii 33. 4, Isa liii 8, 12. 



256 INDEX. 

P 37, p 1, Acts ii 22. 2, 1 Cor xv 12. 5, 1 Cor 
xv 19. 4, lieb i, 9. 5, Heb ii 10. 6, Eph iv 8. 

P 38, p 1 ? 1 Tim iii 16. 2, Isa xliv 6, Rom ix 5. 
3, 1 Tim vi 16. 4, Reviv 8. 5, Rev v 12. 6, Jude 
25. 7, John xiv 23. 

P 59, p 1, John xv 26. 2, John xvi 7. 3, Rom 
viii 26. 4, Acts v 3. 

P40, p l,Lukeii26. 2, lCorvil9. 3, Heb 
ii 3. 4, 1 Cor ii 9. 5, Gal v 22. 6, 2 Cor i 3. 

P4i,pl,Ephiv4, 5. 2,Matiii11. S.Mark 
i 4. 4 ; Luke vn 29. 5, Mat xxviii 18. 6, John iv 2. 
7, Acts xix3. 

P 42, p 1, Acts xviii 8. 2, Acts x 46. 5, Acts 
via 12. 4, Acts viii 35. 5, Acts xvi 14, 15. 6, Acts 
xvi 27, 29. 

P 43, p 1, 1 Cor xii 13. 2, Gal iii 27. 5, Rom 
vi 3. 4, Acts xxii 16. 5, Acts ii 38. 6, rs xxxiv 
14, 3 John 11. 7, Gal vi 10. 8, 1 Tim vi 17. 9 ; 
1 John iii 17. 

P44,p l,2Corix6. 2, Ecclxil. 5, Prov xi 
£4. 4, Prov iii 27. 5, Luke iii 11. 6, Rom xii 8. 
7, Mat vi 1. 8, Heb vi 10. 9, 2 Cor ix 7. 

P 45, p 1.2 Cor viii 12. 2, Mark xii 41. 3, Mat 
x 42. 4, Job xxix 11. 5, Ps cxii 9, xxxvii 26. 6, 
Ps cxii 5, Luke vi So. 

P 46, p 1, Ps xxxvii21. 2, Prov xix 17. 3, Prov 
xxviii 27. 4, Lev xxv 35. 5, Ps xii 1. 6, Prov xi 
25. 7, Prov xxii 9. 8, Deut xv 10. 9, Deut viii 18, 
1 Sam ii 7, Deut xv 11. 10, Mark iv 7. 11, Luke 
xi 41, Luke vi 38. 

P47,p l,Mat v 42. 2. Heb xii 16. 3, Acts xx 
35. 4, Luke xviii 22. 5, Phil ii 4. 6, Amos v 14, 
Prov xi 27. 7, Rom xii 15. 8, Heb xii 3. 9, 1 Pet 
iii8,Zech vii 9. 10, Eph iv32. 11, 1 Thes iv 18, 
James v 16, 1 John iv 7. 12, 1 Thes ii 8. 15, 
Amos v 15 ? Mat v 43, 1 Thes v 15. 



INDEX. 257 

P 48, p 1. Col iii 14. 2, 1 Cor xiii 1. S, 2 Cor 
xiii 6, 13. 4, 1 Cor xiv I, xvi 14, 1 Pet iv 8. 5, 
1 Tim i 5. 6, John \ii 24, 1 Cor iv 5. 7, Mat vii 1. 

P 49, p 1, Mat vii 5. 2, John viii 7. 3, Rom ii 
1. 4. Luke vi 37. 5, 1 Tim v 22, Mat v 8. 6, 1 
Pet ii 1 J. 7, 2 Tim ii 22, 1 Cor vi 18, I Thes iv 

5. 8, I Cor v 9. 9, Prov vi 32. 

P 50, p 1, Mat v 28. 2, Prov ii 11, vii 25. S, 
Prov vi 23, v 5. 4, Prov xxi 17, vi 24, 26. 5, Prov 
xviii 18. 6, 1 Cor vi 9. 

*Page51, and 52, including Chap VII, Exod 
xx 1. 

P 52, p 4. Job vi 28. John xiv 1. 5, 1 Tim vi 8. 

6, 1 Tim vi 6. 7, Phil iv 11, 12. 8, lleb xiii 5. 9, 
Prov xiv 14. 1,0, Lam iii 39. ll,Jude 16. 12,1 
Cor x 19. 13, Phil ii 14. 14, Prov xiii 10, Pa Iv 14. 

P 53, p 1, Prov xix 20, xii 15. 2, Prov xxvii 9. 

5, Pruv xii 5. Ps i 1. 4, Prov ix 9. 5, Prov xv 32. 

6, Prov \ 12. 7, 2 Thes iii 14, 15. 8, lleb iii 13. 
9, Prov xv 32. 10, Ps cxli 5. 1*1, Prov xv 5. 12, 
Prov x 17, xii l. 13, Prov xv 12, ix 8. 14, Eph 
v 11. 15, Prov xxix 1. ]6, Gal iv 16. 

P 54, p 1, Prov ix 8. 2, Prov xxviii 23. 5,1 
Tim v 1. 4, Prov xiii 1. 5, 1 Tim v 20. 6, Exod 
xx 17. 7, Kpli v 3. 8, Luke xii 15. 9, Ps (xii 10. 
1Q, Heb xiii 5, Prov xxviii 16. li,Eccl v 10. 12, 
1 Tim vi 10. 13, Ecc! v 11. 

P 55, p 1, Eccl iii 12. 2, Prov xiii 7. 3, Provx 
2. Ps xxxvii 1G. 4, Prov xv 16. 5, Prov xi 25. 6, 
Isa v 8. 7, Prov xxiii 4, xxviii 20. 8, Ps xxxix 6. 
9. Prov xv 27, Hab ii 9. 10, Eccl iv 8. 11, 1 Tim. 
vi 9. 12, Prov xxvii 24, xxiii 5. 

P 56, p 1, 1 Tim vi 7. 2, Prov xviii 16. 3, Acts 
xx 33. 4, Prov xxx 8, 5, Ps cxix 36. 6, Ps x 3. 

7, Ps xlix 6. 8. Ps xlix 10. 9, Luke xii 15. 

P 57, p 1, Mat vi 19. 2, Eph v 5. 3, Murk x 25. 



258 INDEX. 

♦Page 57, 58, 59, 60, including Chap. XIII 5 
Gen. 1 and II 1, except the last paragraph Heb 
xi 3. 

*Page 60, 61, 62, beginning with Chap. XIV, 
John xix. 

*P 62, p 4, Mat xxvii 51. P 63, p 1, John xix 
SI. 2, John xix 35. 3, Mat xxvii 57. 4, Mat 
xxvii 62. 

P 64, p 1, Jer xvii 9. 2, Eccl ix 3, Gen viii 21. 

3, Eecl viii 11. 4, 1 Kings viii 46. 5, Eccl vii20. 
6,Prov xx 9. 7, Job xv 14. 

P 65, p l,Psxiv 1. 2, Ps viii 4. 3,Ephii3,xi 1, 

4, Horn vii 18. 5, Rom vi,24. 6, Ps li 5. 7, Ps lviii 

5, 8, Ps xiv 3. 9, Rom iii 10, 13. 10, Isa lix 2. 
P 66, p 1, Ps Ixxiii 6. 2, Prov iv 16. 3, Ps xciv 

21. 4, Ps x 8. 5, Ps x 7. 6. Amos v 10. 7, Pslxiii 
9. 8, Jobxxil4. 9, Ps x 11, xiv 1. 10, Jer ii 12. 

P 67, p 1, Hos iv 8. 2, Jer xviii 12. 3, Zech 
vii 12. 4, Jer xvii 1. 5, 1 John v 19. 6, John iii 
19. 7, John viii 44. 8, lsa xxviii 15. 9, Mic vii 
3. 10, 2 Pet ii 18. 

P 68, p 1, Rom i 21. 2. 2 Tim iii 4. 

P 69, p 1, Gen vi 15. 2, 1 John v 7. 5, Gen i 
t6. 4, Gen xi 6. 5, lsa vi 3. 6, Ps xxxiii 6. 7, 
Isa xliv *J4. 8, Isa xxxiv 16. 9, John xiv 23. 10, 
1 Cor viii 6. 

P 70, p 1, Phil ii 6. 2, John xvii 21. 3, John 
xiv 10, x 30, xiv 11, 9, 7, xiv 15, xvii 10, Luke 
ix 48. 4, Isa xlviii 16. 5, Mat xxviii 19. 6,2Thes 
iii 5. 7, 2 Cor xiii 14. 8, John viii 18. 9, John viii 
18. 10, 1 John v 6. 11, Ps lxxxiii 18.' 12, Jer 
xxxiii b. 13. Ezek viii 3. 14, Rom x 12. 

P71, p 1. Luke ii 11. 2, Isa xl 13. 3,Matxv 
31. 4, Luke i 16. 5, 2 Sam xxiii 3. 6, Rom vii 35. 
7, Gal vi 2. 8, Rom viii 2. 9, Deut vi 16. 10, 1 
Cor x 9. 11, Acts v 9. 12, 1 Cor ii 16. 13, 1 Cor 



INDEX. 259 

ii IB. 14, Rom viii 27. 15, 1 Thes iv S. 16, Acts 
xxii 14. 17. 2 Peti 21. 18, Eph lii 7. 19, 2 Cor 
xii 9. 

P t% p 1, Rom xv 18. 2, Rom xvi 26. 3, Rev 
i 11. 4, Heb ix 14. 5, John vii 28. 6, Rev iii 7. 
7, 1 John v 6. 8, Rev xv 4. 9, Acts iii 14. 10, 
John xiv 26. 11, Ps cxiv 9. 12, Acts x 38. 13, 
Ps cxliii 10. 14, Dan ii 20. 15, Col ii 3. 

P 73. p 1, Eph i 17. 2, Acts xv 18, I Kings viii 
59. 3, John ii 24. Acts i 24. 4, 1 Cor ii 10, 11.5, 
Jer xxiii 24. 6, Eph i 17, 22. 7, Ps cxxxix 7. 8, 
Deut xxx 19. 9, Col iii 4. 10, Rom viii 10. 11 
Ps c 3, Rev iv 2. 12, John i 3, Coi i 16. 13, Job 
xxxiii4, Ps civ SO. 14, John v 21. 15, John 
v21. 

P 74, p 1, John vi 63. 2, John vi 45. 3, Gal i 11. 
4, John xiv 26. 5, 1 John i 3. 6, 1 John i 3. 7, 2 
Cor xiii 14. 8. 1 Cor xiv 25. 9, 2 Cor xiii 5. 10, 
John xiv 17 11, 2 Cor vi 16. 12,Eph xiv 17. 13, 
Rom viii 11. 14, Philiii 15. 15, Gal i 12. 16, 
Luke ii 26. 17. Heb i 1. 18, 2 Cor xiii 3. 19, Mark 
xiii 11. 20, Isaxliv 24. 21, Rev ii 18. 

P 75, p 1, Acts xiii 2. 2, 1 Cor vi 14. S, John 
ii 9. 4, 1 Pet iii 18. 5, Isa xlviii 17. 6, John x 5. 
7, Rom viii 14. 8, 2 Cor iii 5. 9, 1 Tim i 12. 10, 
Acts xx 28. 11, Mat ix 38. 12, 1 Cor i 17* 13, 
Acts xiii 4, 5. 14,Jude 1. 15, Heb ii 11. 16, 
Rom xv 16. 

P76, p 1,1 Cor xii 6. 2, Col iii 11. 3, 1 Cor xii 

1 1. 4, Jade 19. 5. Eph iii 14. 6, 1 Tim i 18. 7, 
Revi5. 8, 2 Cor i 3. 

P 77, p 1, 1 Pet iii 8, Rom xii 10, 1 Thes iv 9. 
2. John xiii 34. 3, John xiii 35. 4. Phil i 27, Rom 
viii 9, Gal v 24. 5, 2 Tim ii i9. 6, Eph iv 1. 7, 
1 Thes v 13, Col iii 15. 8, 1 Cor i 19. 9, Col iii 

12. 10, Eph iv3i. 



360 INDEX. 

P 78, p 1, Mat xviii 21, 2, Rom xiv 10, 4, IS. 
S, Mat v 23. 4, Gai vi 1. 5, Luke xvii 3. 6, Mat 
xviii 15. 

P 79, p 1, James v 19. 2, Tit iii 10. 3, Rom 
xiv 1. 4, 1 Thes v 14. 5, 1 flies v 15. 6, Co! iv 
5, Rom xii 1 7, Mat v 16, Rom xiv 10. 7, 2 Pet i 

5, 8, Rom xii 9. 

P 80, p 1, James v 11, 2 Cor xiii 11.2, Phil iv 

8. 3, Acts xix 32. 4, Eph vi 24. 5, 2 Cor xiii 14. 

6, Mat v 43. 7, Prov xxiv 17, xvii 5. 8, 1 Pet iii 
8,9. 

P 81, p 1, Prov xxiv 29. 2, Prov xx 22, Rom 
xii 17. 3, Mat v 39. 4, 1 Corivl2. 5, Lev xix 
18. 6, Prov xxv 21, 22. 7, Rom xii 19. 8, Rom xii 
20. 9, Rom xii 21. 10, 2 Chr xx 20, Acts xvi 31, 
2 Cor iv 13. 11, Mat xxii 37. 

P 82, p 1, Mat iv 10. 2, Mai i 11. 3, Ps xcvi 9. 
4, Rom xii 12, John iv 24. 5, Prov xvi 6. 6, Josh 
xxiv 14, 1 Sam xii 24, 1 Chr xxviii 9. 7, Josh xxiv 
15, Ps lxviii 25, Rom'viii SI. 8, 1 Tim ii 8. 9,Ps 
xcii 1, 2. 10, Judg v 9. Ps ix 11, cv 1. 

P 83, p 1, Col iii 15, 1 Thes v 18. Heb xiii 15. 

2, Ps cxliv 15. 3, Prov xxiii 26. 4, Deut viii 18, 
Eccl xii 1. 5, Isa xiv 9. 

P 84, p 1, Ps xci 2, 5, 9. 2, 1 James iv 7, Prov 
iii 5, 6. 3, Acts xxi 14. 4, Hab iii 17. 5, Job xiii 
15. 6. Rom xiv 7, 8. 7, I Cor x 31. 8, Col iii 17. 

9, Ephiv30. 10, Eccl xii 14. 

P 85, p 1, Prov v 18, 19. 2, Prov xviii 2, xix 14. 

3. I Cor vi27. 4, Col iii 19. 5, Eph v25,27. 6, 
Mai ii 15. 7, Eccl ix 9. 8, Eph v 33. 9, Tit ii 4. 
1,1 Pet iii I. 11, Col iii 18. 

P 86, p I, Eph v 22. 2, 1 Cor vii 10. 3, Mat v 
52. 4, 1 Cor vii 2. 5, 1 Tim ii 9. 6, 1 Pet iii 3. 

7, Prov xii 4. 8, Prov xxxi 10, 25. 

P87, p 1, Prov xxxi 50. 2, 2 Sam xxii 3. S, 



INDEX. 261 

I xviii 21. 4, Prov xi 14. 5, Deut xvi 18. 6, 
Ps ii 10. 

P 88. p 1, Jcr xxii 3. 2, 1 Tim ii 1. 3, Acts 
xxiii 5. 4, Exod xxii 28. 5, Eccl x 20. 6, 1 Pet ii 
17, Eccl viii 2. 7, 1 Pet ii 13. 8, Tit iii 1. 9, 
Rom xiii 1. 

P 89, p 1, Mat xxii 21. 2, Mat xxii 26, 27. 3, 
Provxviil7. 4,Jude8. 5, 2 Pet ii 9. 6, Ezra 
vii 26. 7, Prov xxix 2. 8, Ps xii 8. 

P 90, p 1, Isa x 1. 2, Job xxxii 9. 3, Prov xxviii 

16. 4, Job xxxiv 17. 5, Eccl vii 7. 6, Eccl iv 1. 
7, Eccl v 8. 8, 1 Sam xiv 44. 9, 1 Sam xxii 17. 
10, Esther iii 2, 5. 

P 91, p 1, Dan iii 15. 2, Dan vi 7, 9. 3, Acts 
iv 18, v 29. 4, Mat vii 12. 

P 92, p 1, Rom xii 9. 2, Rom xiii 10. 3, Luke 
x 25. 

P 93, p 1, 1 Cor xii SI, Rom xii 6. 2, 1 Cor x 
24. 3, i Pet iii 11, Rom xii 10, Mat x 16, 1 Tim 
v 7, Mic vi 8, Rom xiii 7. 4, Col iv 1, Eph vi 9. 
5, Deut xxiv 14. 6, Lev xxv 43. 7, James v 4. 

P 94, p 1, Mai i 6, Prov xxvii 18. 2, Prov xvi 
2. 3, Luke iii 14. 4, 1 Pet ii 13. 5, Col iii 22, 
Eph vi 8. 6, Tit ii 9. 7. Rom x 15. 8, Col iv 17. 
9, 1 Tim vi 11. 10, 2 Tim ii 14, 22. 

P 95, p 1, 1 Pet iv 11. 2, 1 Tim vi 3. S, Isa 
lviii 1. 4, Ezek ii 7, 

P 96, p 1, Tit i 13. 2, Ezek xxxiii 7. 3,'l Tim 
iv 12. 4, 1 Tim vi 20, 2 Thn iv 2. 

P 97, p 1,2 Tim iii 14. 2, Acts xviii 24. S. 
Tit ii 1. 

P 9 8, p 1, 1 Thes ii 4. 2, 1 Cor ii 2. S, Acts 
xx 27. 4, 2 Tim iii 1. 

P 99, p 1, Tit i 8. 2, 1 Pet v 1, 2. 3, 1 Tim v 

17. 4, Mat ix 38. 5, 1 Tim v 18. 6, Rom xv SO, 
Kphvi 18, 19. 

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262 INDEX. 

P 100, p 1, £ Thesiii 1. 2, 1 Thes v 12. S, 
Heb xiii 7, 17. 4, Rom x 14. 5, Luke viii 18, 
Mark iv 24. 6, Heb xiii 9. 7, 1 Tim iv 1. 8, Mark 
vii 7, 9. 9, Col ii 8. 

P 101, p 1, Gal i 7. 2, Jude 3. 3, Heb iii 12. 4, 
1 Tim v 8. 5, 2 Cor xii 14. 6, Prov xi 29. 7, Ps 
cxxvii 3. 8, Eph vi 4. 

P 102, p 1, Deut vi 6, 2, Prov xxii 6. 3, Prov 
xix 18, xxiii 13. xiii 24, xxii 15, xxix 15, 17. 4, 
Ephvil. 5, Col iii 20. 6, Mai i 6. 7, Eph vi 2. 
8, Lev xix 3. 9, Prov xxiii 22. 

P 103, p 1, Prov x 1. 2, Prov vi 20. 3, Prov i 
8. 4, Prov xv 5. 5, Prov xv 10. 6, Prov xxx 17. 
7, Prov xxx 11. 8, Dent xxvii 16. 9, Prov xxviii 
24. 10, Prov xviii 19. 11, Ps cxxxiii 1. 12, James 
iv 5. 13, Gal v 19. 14, James iii 14, 16. 

P 104, p 1, Eccl iv 4. 2, Prov xxiv 1 . 3, Prov 
xxiii 17. 4,P$ xxxvii 1. 5, Job v 2. 6, Prov xiv 
30. 7, Prov xxvii 4. 8, Acts xvii 26. 9, Mai ii 
10. 10, Prov xxii 2, Ps xxxiii 15. 11, Job xxiv 
12, 19. 12, Rom x 12. 13, Acts xiv 15. 14. Eccl 
ix 2, iii 20, 

P 105, p 1, Job xxi 26. 2, Eccl ix 5, 6. 3, Eccl 
iv 11. 4, Tit iii 1, 2. 5, Exod xxiii 1, 7. 6, Prov 
xxii 1. x 18. 7, 1 Cor v 11. 8, Ps xxxvii 3..' 9. 1 
Cor xii 20. 10, Prov iv 24. 11, Prov x\i 28. 12, 
Lev xix 16. 13, Prov xx 10. 14, Prov xxvi 20. 

P 106, p 1, Eph v 3, 4. 2, Ps cxix 22 3. Ps 
xxxiv 13. 4. Eph iv 31. 5, John xx 27, Mark ix 
:4. 6, Heb xi 1. 7, Mark xi 22, John xiv 1 . 1 Cor 
\ii 3. 8. Mark xvi 15. 9, John iii 36. 10, John v 
24. II, John iii IS. 

P 107, p 1, John v 46. 2, Luke xvi SI- S,Mat 
s 32. 4, 1 John ii 22. 5, Mark viii 38. 6, Eph iv 
4, 5, 7, 'Heb xi 6. 8, Rom xiv 23. 9, Gal ii 16. 

P 108, p 1, Gal ii 21, iii 11. 2. 2 Coi xiii 5. 3, 



INDEX. 26S 

Heb iii 12. 4, Hcb x 23. 5, James ii 24. 6, James 
li 14. 7, Mat vii 16. 8, Mat vii 21. 

P 109, p I, Mat vii 24. 2, Mat xii 50. 3, John 
xlv 15. J 4, James i 22. 5, 1 Cor iv 20. 6, Rom xiv 
17. 7, Col i 10. 8, Mat v 16. 9, Tit iii 8. 

P 110, p 1, James i 27. 2, Mat vi 16. 3, Isa 
viii 4. 

P 111, p 1, Prov xxviii 20, Ps xxxi 23. 2, Ps ci 
6. 3, 1 Cor iv 2. 4, Luke xvi 12. 5, Luke xvi 10. 

6, Pa xii 1. 7, Prov xx 6, Ps v 9. 8, Prov xxv 19 % 
9. Mai ii 10. 10, Rev ii 10. 

* Page 111, 112, 113, 114, including Chap. 
XXX1L, Gen vi, vii, viii. 

P 114, p 2, Luke vi 37. 3, Mat vi 14. 4, Prov 
xvii 9, xix 11. 5, Mat xviii 32. 

P 1 15, p 1, Acts vii 59. 2, Luke xxiii 33. 5, 
Isa xxxv 4. 4, Ps xxvii 14. 5, 2 Tim i 13. 6, Heb 
iv 14, 16. 7, I Kings ii 2. 8, 1 Cor xvi 13. 9, 2 
Timii 1. 10, Ephvi 10. 

P 116, p 1, Isa xl 6. 2, Ps ciii 15. 3, Ps xc 9. 
4, Ecclxi 10, Psxxix 11, 5. 

P 117, p 1, Ps xxxix 6. 2, Prov xxvii 1. 3, Heb 
xiii 14. 4, James iv 13. 5, Zech i 5. 6, Jobxiv 1. 

7, Ps cxliv 4. 8, Job v 7. 9, 1 Pet i 24. 10, Ps 
xlix 17. ll,Psxc5. 12, Jobxxxiv 15. 13, Ps 
cxlvi 4. 14, Job xiv 20. 

P 118, p 1, Ps civ 29. 2, Job xxx 23. 3, Job 
xiv 5. 4, Job vii 10. 5, Job xvi 22. 6, Job vii 8. 

7, Job xiv 10. 8, Job xvii 14. 9, Ps 1 xxxix 48. 10, 
Hebix27. II, Eccl viii 8. 12,2Timiv6. 13,1 
Cor vii 29. 14, Deut xxxii 29. 

P 119,p 1, Eccl i 14. 2, Ps xxxix 4. 3, Ps xc 

8. 4, Jobiv 18. 5, Job viii 9. 6, Ps xciv 11. 7, L 
Cor iii 20. 8, 1 Cor iii 9. 9, Mark x 19, Lev xix 
II. 10, Lev xix IS. 11, Exod xxii 25. 

P 120, p 1, Prcv xsviii 8. 2,Prt>v xvi 8. 5. 



264 INDEX. 

xvi 11. 4, Prov xx 21. 5, Prov xxi 6. 6, Prov xx 
14. 7, Jerxxii 13. 8, Hab ii 6. 9, Lev xxv 17. 10, 
Lev xxv 14. 11. Zech vii 10. 12, Prov xiv 31. 13, 
Prov xxii 22. 14, Exod xxii 22. 15, Isa w 15. 

P 121, p 1, Prov xxii 16. 2, Prov xxii 27. 3, 
Mai iii 5. 4, Ps lxii 10. 5, Prov iii 31. 6, Mic ii 
1. 7, Luke iii 14, Jonah iii 8. 8, Ps v 6, xi 5. 
10, Hab ii 12. 11, Prov xxviii 17. 12, Gen ix 5. 

P 122. p 1, Prov vi 3. 2, Prov xvi 17. 3, Prov 
xxvi 10. 4, Prov xviii 24. 5, Job vi 14. 6, Job xix 
21. 7, John xv 13. 8, Prov xxii 24. 9, Prov xxvii 

14. 10, Jobxvii5. 11, Prov xiv £0. 12, Prov xix 
4. 13, Job xix 14, 19. 14, Ps xli 9. 15,Pror xvi 

15. 16, Mic vi 5, Ps cxviii 8. 

P J 23, p 1, James iv 4. 2, Heb iv 9, 11. S, Mat 
vii 13. 4, Pscxvil5. 5, Rev xiv IS. 6, 2 Tim iv 
9. 7, Isa xxxiii 15. 

P 124, p 1, John xiv 2, 1 Cor ii 9. 2, Ps xvi 1 1. 
3, 1 Pet i 3. 4, Rev vii 14. 5, Rev xxi 4. 6, Rom 
ii 6. 

P 125, p 1, 1 Pet iv 17. 2, Heb xii 29, x 3. 3, 
Isaxxiii 14. 4, 2 Cor vi 15. 5,Psix 17. 6, Mat 
iii 1.0. 7, Rev xx 15. 8, Mat iii 12. 9, Mark ix 
44, Rev xiv 11. 10, Luke xvi 19. 

P 126, p 1, 1 Tim iv 7. 2, 1 Tim iv 8. 3, 2 
Con 12. 

P 127, p 1, Rom xii 1. 2, Lev xi 44, 1 Pet i 15, 
Romvil9. 3, Heb xii 14. 4, Psiv3. 5, Ps i 1. 
6, Prov xvi 27. 7, Rom i 18. 8, Jude 14. 

P 128, p 1, 2 Pet iii 7. 2, Tit ii il. 3, Prov iv 
25. 4, Mat xii 34. 5, Mat xv 19. 6, Matix4. 7, 
Zech viii 17. 8, Isa lv 7. 9, Prov xxx 32. 

P 129, p 1, James iii 1,8. 2, Prov xviii 21. 3, 
Prov xiii 3, xxi 23. 4,Ecclv6. 5, James iii 2. 
6, James i 26. 7, Eph iv 29. 8, 1 Pet iii 10. 9, 
Prov iv 24. 10. Prov x 19. 11, Pr?v xxix 20. J 2, 



INDEX. 265 

Prov xxix 1\. 13, Ps xxxviii 8. 14, Prov xix 19. 
15, Mat v 22. 16, Prov xv 1, James i 19. 17, Prov 
xiv 17. 18, Ecclvi 9, Ephiv 2(5. 

P 130, p 1, Prov xxii 24. 2, Prov xiv 29. 3, 
Prov xvi 32. 4, Prov xxv 28. 5, Phil iv 5. 6, 1 
Pet iv 7. 7, Col iii 8. 8, Mat xii 36. 9. Ps xix 14. 
10, Ps cxxxix 23. 11. Tit ii 11. 12, Acts xv II. 

P 13J . p 1, Eph iv 30. 2, Eph ii 8. 3, Acts xiii 
48. 4, Tit iii 3. 5, 2 Tim i 8. 6. Mark x 40. 7, 
Mat xxv 34. 8, John i 17, 1 Cor xv 10, Eph iv 7, 
Rom vi 23.' 

P 132. p 1, Tit i 1.2, lCori 1. 3,1 Pet i 1. 4; 
2 Pet i 1. 

P 133, p 1. Judc 1. 2, Mat xxii 14. 5,Exod 

xxx iii 19. 4, Rom ix 15. 5. 1 Cor iii 6. 6, John 

. 7. John vi 39. 8. John x vii 2. 9, 1 Thes v 

9. 10,Ccli 12. n,2TimiilO. 12.1 Cor i 4, 9, 26. 

P 134, p 1. 2 Cor v 18. 2. Mark xiii 20. 3, 
Eph i 5. 4, Philii 13. 

P 135, p 1, 2 Tim ii 19. 2, Rom xi 2. 5. 3, Rom 
viii 28. 4, 2 Thes ii 13. 5. Rev x> ii 14. 6, 2 Pet 
i 10. 7, 1 Thes i 4, Acts xx 32. 8, 1 Pet v 10. 

P 136, p 1, Beut x 19, Lev xix 54. 2, Job xxxi 
:v:. 3. Reb xiii 2. 4, Rom xii 13, 1 Pet iv 9/ 5, 
Gen xvii 2,4, 8, 6, Luke xiv 12. 

P 1^7. pi, Mat v 3. 2, Prov xv 53, xxii 4. 5, 
John xiii 14. 4, Rom xii 16. 5, Prov xxii] 4, Job 
xxxvii 24, Prov xvi 12, 6, 1 Cor iii 18. T, 1 Cor 
viii 2. 8, Gai vi 5. 9, Rom xii 3. 10, Prov iii 7, 
Isa v 21. 11, Isa x 53, Prov xxix 23. 

P 138, p 1, Zephiii 11, Isaii 17. 2,Jer xiii 15, 
Prov xvi 18. 3, Prov xvi 19. 4, 1 Sam ii 3, Prov 
viii 13, i^a xiii 1 1. 5, Prov iii 5. 6, Prov xx 6. 
7, John vii IS. Prov xxvii 2. 8, 2 Cor x 18. 9, 
Rom xi 20, 1 Tim vi 17. 10, Prov xxviii II. 11. 
Jer ix23. 12, 1 Cor i 27. 



266 INDEX. 

P 159, p t, Job xi 12, Prov xxx 8, Gal v 2G. 2, 
Phil ii 3. 3, Prov xi 12, xiv 21. 4, 1 Cor iv 7. 5, 
Mat xx 27. 6, 1 Pet v 5. 7, James iv 10, Job xxii 
29. 8, Prov iii 34. 9, Mat xviii 4. 10, Job xii 2. 
11. Ram x 2. 

P 140, p 1, Prov xxx 12. 2, Isa lxv 5. 3, 1 John 
i 8. 4, Job ix 20. 5, Luke xvi 15. b, Luke xviii 9. 
7. Job iv 13* 

P 141, p 1, Luke xii 1. 2, Job viii 13, xv 34, 
xxvii 8. 3, Job xiii 16, xxvi 12. 4, Prov xi 9. 5, 
Job xx 5. 6. Job xii 2, Ps xxvii 5, Ezek xxxiii SI. 
7. Mat xv 8. 8, Tit i 16,2 Tim iii 5. 9, Rom ii 21. 
P 142, p 1, Mat vi 5. 2, Mat xxiii 13. 3, Mat 
xxiii 14. 4, Mat xxiii 15. 5, Mat xxiii 23. 6, Mat 
xxiii 25. 

P 143, p 1, Mat xxiii 27. 2, Mat xxiii 29. 3, 1 
Cor x 14, Lev xix 4. 4, Ps xcvii 7. 5, Mic v 13, 
2 Cor vi 16. 6, 1 Cor viii 4, Acts xv 20. 7, 1 John 
v 21. 8, Col iii 5, 1 Tim vi 17. 

P 144, p 1, Job xxxii 21. 2, Mat xxiii 7. 3, John 
v 44. 4, John xii 43, 1 Cor iii 21, i 31. 5, Acts x 
25. 6, 2 Tim iii 4. 7, Acts xiv 15. 8, Ezek xiv 6. 
9, Mat xvi 26. 10, 1 John ii 15. 11, Mat x 37. 12, 
Rom v 5. 13, Isa Ixvi 23. 

P 145, p 1, Heb i 6. 2, Phil iii 5. 3, Luke x 41 . 
4, Mat vi 33. 5, Col iii 2. 6, Job xxxii 8. 7, Eccl 
xii 7. 8,Ps xlix 15. 9, Job xix 26. 10, 1 Cor xv 16. 
11,1 Cor xv 21. 12, Acts xxvi 8. 13, lCorxv35. 
P 146, p 1, 1 Thes iv 16. 2, Mat xvi 27. 3, Dan 
xii 2. 4, John v 29. 5, lCorxv51. 

P 147, p 1, Gal vi 5, 8. 2, Job xix 25. 3, Rev 
i 7. 4, Mark xiii 24. 5, 2 Pet iii 10. 

P 148, p 1, Acts xvi 31. 2 Eccl iii 17, Psxcviii 
7, Rom xiv 10. 3, Rom xiv 12, Heb x 31. 4, Mat 
xvi 27. 5, 2 Cor v 10. 6. Job xxxiv 11. 7. 1 Coy 
vi 9. 8. Mat xii 36. 



INDEX. 267 

P 149, p 1, Mark xvi 16. 2, Mat vi 22. 3, Rev 
xx 12. 4, Mat xxv 51. 

P 150, p 1, Romxii 11. 2, 2 Thes iii 10. 5,1 
Thes iv 10, 11. 4, Prov xxviii 19. 

P 151, p 1, Prov xii 11. 2, Prov xxvii23. 5, 
Prov x 4. 4, Prov xxi 5. 5, Prov xix 15. 6, Ecel 
x 18. 7, Prov xxiii 21. 8, Prov xx 15, vi 6. 9, 
Prov x 26. 10, Prov xiii 4. 11, Prov xx 4. 12, 
Prov x 5. 

P 152, p 1, Ezekxvi 49. 2, 1 Tim v IS. 5, Acts 
xx 34. 4, 2 Thes iii 7. 5, 1 Thes iii 11. 6, Bph 
iv 28. 7, Eccl v 12. 8, Prov xii 27. 9, Prov xiii 11. 

10, Prov xii 24, xix 24. 

P 153, p 1, Prov xxvi 14. 2, Prov xxii 13. 3, 
Prov xxi 25. 4, Provxv 1&. 5, Prov xxiv SO. 6, 
Deut iv 9. 7, Deut vi 17. 8, Deut vi 7. 9, 2 Pet 
•Si 14. 10,IIebvill. 11, John ix 4. 12, Eccl ix 
10. 

P 154, p 1, Prov xi 3, Pa xxv 21. 2. Job xvii 5. 
3, Isa xxvi 7, Prov xx 7. 4, Prov xix 1. 5, Prov 
xxviii 6. 7, Prov x 9. 7, Prov xv 21, Ps cxii 2. 
8, Ps cxii 4, lxiv 10. 9, Prov xi 6. 10, Prov xiv 

11. 11, Prov xxviii 10. 12, Ps ixxxiv 1 1. 13.. 
Prov xv 8, xi 20. 14, Rom xiii 13. 15, 2 Cor xiii 
7. I Pctii 12,2Corviii 21. 

P 155, p 1, Isalvi 1, 3, Deut xvi 20. 2, Luke 
iii 13, Rom xiii 7, 8. 3, Mic vi 8. 4. Prav xxi 3. 
5, Lev xix 35, Deut xxv 15. 6, Lev xix 36, Prov 
xi 1. 7, Zech vii 9, Lev xix 15. 8, Deut xxv 1. 

P 156, p 1, Prov xvi 15. 2, Prov xxiv 23. 3. 
Deut i 17. 4, Deut xvi 19. 5, Prov xvii 23, Mic 
vii 3. 6, Deut Ixxxii 2. 7, Job xxix 16. 8, Prov 
xxxi 9. 9, Job xxxviii 2. 10, Kxod xxiii 6 y 2. 11, 
Prov xviii 17. 12, Prov iv 18. 13, Prov xii 21. 

P 157, p I, Prov xiii 22. 2, Prov x 6, iii S3, x 
7. 3, Ezek xviii 5. 4, Prov xi 7. 5, 1 Tim v 21. 6, 



£68 INDEX. 

Prov xxviii 21. 7, James ii 2. 8, Job xiii 10c 9. 
Pet i 17, Acts x 35. 

P 158, p 1, Isa liii 11. 2, Isa ii 2. 3, Isa xi 0. 

4, I$a xxxv 1 . 

P 159, p l,Ps cxxii6. 2, Isa liv 17. 3, Mat 
xvi 18. 4, Mat xxvi 17. 

P 160, p 1, 1 Corx 16. 2, 1 Corxi 20. 

P 161, p 1, Eph v 2, 1 Thes iii 12. 2, 1 John iv T. 

5, 1 John iv 12, 16. 4, 1 John iv 20. 5, 2 John 6. 
P 162, p 1, Gal v 13, Rom xii 9, Prov x 12. 2, 

Gen ii 7, 18, 21. 3, Mark x 3. 4, Heb xiii 4. 
P 163, p 1, Tit iii 1, 2. 2, Mat v 5. 3, 1 Pet iii 

4. 4, Zeph ii 3. 5, Ps xxv 8, 9. 6, Isa lxi 1. 7, Ps 
cxlvii 6, Isa xxix 19, Ps cxlix 4. 8, Ps xxii 26, xxvii 
11. 9, James iii 13. 10, 1 Petiii 15. 11, Mat v 7. 

P 164, p 1, Hos xii 6, Prov xvi c3, Dan iv 27, 
Prov xxi 21. 2, JViic vii 18, Lam iii 22. 3, Hos iv 
1. 4, Zech vii 9. 5, 1 Pet iii 8. 6, James ii 13. 7, 
Ps cix 12. 8, Job xxiv 7. 9, Prov xxi 13, xiv 21. 
10, Prov xi 17. 11, Prov xii 10. 12, Ps lxxiv 20. 
13, Ps lxxi 4. 

P 165, p 1, John ii 1, 7, 11. 2, John iv 46, 49, 
54. 3, John v 5. 

P 166, p 1, John viii 58, ix 1, 6. 2, Mark i 23, 
25. 3, Mark i 30. 4, Mark i 32. 34. 5, Mat iv 23. 

P 167, p 1, Mat viii 2. 2, Mat viii 5, 13. 3, 
Luke vii 12. 4, Mat viii 23. 5, .Mark v 2, 8, 13. 

P 168, p 1, Mark ii 1, 3, 10. 2, Mark v 25, 34. 

5, Mark v 35, 41. 4, Mat ix 27, 29. 

P 169, p 1, Mat ix 32. 2, Luke xvii 12. 3, John 
xi 38, 41. 4, Mat xii 10, 13. 5, Mat xii 22. 6, 
Mat xiv 14, 19. 

P 170, p 1, Mat xiv 24, 29. 2, Mat xiv 35. 3, 
Mark xii 25, 29. 

P 171, p 1, Mark vii 32. 2, Mat xv 30. 3, Mat 
xv 34. 4, Mark viii 22. 



INDEX. 269 

* P 172, p 1, Mat xvii 14, 18. 2, Mat xvii 26, 

3, Mark x 51. 4, Mat xx 14. 5, Mat xxi 17. 
G.Luke xxii 47. P 173, p 1. lsa\ii 14. 2, Mat i 18. 

P 174, p 1, Gen i 37. 2, Eccl vii 29. 3, Ps xlix 
12. 4, Gen ii 8, 15, 20, 22, iii 20. 5, Gen iii 1. 

P 176, p 1, Gen ii 22. 2, 1 Cor xv 21, 22, Rom 
vi 23, v 12. 

P 177, p 1, Rom iii 23. 2, Gal iii 22. 3, Mat 
xiii 1,18. 

* P 178, Mat xiii 24, 37. P 179, p 1, Mat xxi 
53. 2. Luke xv 11. 

P 181, p 1, 1 Thes v 14, Luke xxi 19. 2, Ecci 
vii 8. 3, Rom xii 12, v 5.4, Rom viii 25. 5, 1 Pet 
ii 2. 6, Heb x 36. 7, James v 7. 

P 182, p 1, James v 10. 2 Heb xii 1. 3, James 
i 2. 4, Zech viii 19, Ps xxxiv 14. 5, Rom xii 18. 

P 183, p 1, 1 Cor xiv 33, 2 Cor xiii 11.2, Prov 
xii 20. 3, Mat v 9. 4, Amos iii 3, Gen xlv 24. 5, 
Rom xvi 17. 6, Mat xii 25. 7, Tit iii 9, Prov xvii 

14. 8, Provxxv 21. 9, Provxv 18. 10, Prov iii 30. 
11, Prov x 12, vi 14. 12, 1 Thes iv 11. 13, Rom 
xii 16, Mark ix 50, 1 Thes v 14. 14, Heb xii 14, 
Rom xiv 19. 15, Ps cxx 7. 16, James iv 1. 17, 
Isa ix 5. 

P 184, p 1, Ps lxviii 30. 2, Rom viii 6. 3, 1 Cor 
vii 15, Job xxxiv 29. 4, Prov xvi 7. 5, Job xxii 21. 
6, Ps cxix 165, Phil iv 7,Col iii 15. 7, John xiv 27. 
8, Gal v 22. 9, James iii 18. 10, Ps xxxvii 37. 
11, Isa lvii 1. 12, Gal vi 9, Luke ix 62. 13, Heb 
iv 1. 14, 2 Pet iii 17. 15, 1 Cor x 12. 

P 185, p 1, 2 John 8. 2, 1 Cor ix 27. 3, Phil iii 

15, 4, Heb vi 4. 5, 2 Pet ii 20. 6, James i 12. 7 S 
Heb iii 14. 8, Mat x 22. 9, Rev iii 12. 

P 186, p 1, Rev xxi 7. 2, Rev ii 7. S, Heb x 38. 
4, Job xvii 9, Prov x 30, Ps xxxvii 31. 5, 1 Sam 
xii 22, ii 9. 6, Ps xxxvii 28. 7, Ps xlviii 14, Ixxiii 
24 



£70 INDEX. 

24. 8, Ps lxxxiv 7. 9, Ps cxxv 1. 10, Ps exxxviii 
8. 11, Isa xii 10. 

P 187, p 1, Isa liv 10, 13, 17. 2, Isa xlv 17. 3, 
John iv 14, vi 51. 4, John xiv 19. 5, John xiii 1. 

6, Jer xxxii 40. 7, John vii 37. 8, John x 27. 

P 188, p 1, Rom vi 14. 2, 1 Cor i 7. 3, 1 Cor x 

13. 4, 1 Cor iii 21. 5, Phil i 6. 6, Heb vi 17. 7, 
Ileb xiii 6. 9, 1 John ii 27, 9, 1 John iii 9. 

P 189, p 1, I Peti 3. 2, Rom viii 35. 3, 1 Pet 
iii 8, Rom xii 10. 4, Rom xv 1. 5, Gen xxiii 12. 

P 190, p 1, Gen xxxiii 3. 2, 1 Kings ii 19. 3, 
Acts xxvi 25. 4, Isa iii 5. 5, Lev xix 32. 6, Job 
xxxii 7. 7, Mat v 47. 8, Mat x 12. 9, Luke xiv 
8. 10, 1 Pet ii 7, 2 Pet v 14. 11,1 Thes ii 7. 12, 
Provxv 1, xxv 11. 13, Eccl x 12, 14, Col iv 6. 15, 
1 Cor xv 23. l6,Lukexxi 36, Lam iii 41, Ps xcv t>. 

P 191, pi, Ps eiii 21, Jiule 20, Eph v 20. 2, 1 
Thes v 17, James v 16. 3, Eccl v 2. 4, Ps Iv 17. 5 
Prov xv 9, James v 16. 6, 1 Thes i 2. 7, Lukexi 5. 

P 192, p 1, Mark xi 25. 2, Eccl V 2. Mat vi 7. 

3, Rom xii 14, Jer xxiii 10. 4, Mat v 34. 

P 193, p 1, James v 12. 2, Lev xix 12. 3, Zech 
viii 17, Luke iii 14. 4, Ps cxliv 8. 5, Exod xxiii 

I , Prov xix 28. 6, Prov xiv 5. 7, Prov xiv 25. 8, 
Prov xxv IS. 9, rrov xix 5, xxi 28, 10. Mai iii 5. 

II, Ps xiiv 15. 12, Isa Iii 5. 13, Mark iii 28. 

14, Mat xii 51. 

P 194, p 1, Eccl vii 14. % Rom xii 15. 3, Eccl 
v 18. 4, Prov i 52. 5, Ps xcii 7. 6, Prov xxiv 10. 

7, Mat v 10. 8, 1 Pet ix 16. 9, Mat v II. 

P 195, p 1, Mat v 4. 2, Eccl vii 2. 3, Job v 6. 

4, Ps xciv 12. 5, Prov iii 12. 6, Heb xii 5. 

P 196, p IjPsxii 1. 2, 2 Sam xii 19. 5, Ps 
fxkxviii IS. 4. Job i 21. 5, Ps xlvi 10. 6, Ps cxix 
75, 67, 71. 7. Ps cxix 49. 8, Ps xciv 19. 9, 2 Cor 



INDEX. £71 

vii 19. 10, Ps xxxiv 9, Isa xlix 13. 11, Isa xxvi 9. 
12, Lam iii 33. 

P 197, p 1, 1 Pet iv 19. 2, Prov xii 13,xxxiv 17, 
xxxvii 39. 3, James v 13. 4, Ps cxliii 11. 5,Ps xci 
15. 6, Ps lx 11. 7, 2 Chr xv 4. 8, Ps ix 9, xlvi 1, 
xxvii 5. 9, Jobvl8. 10, 2 Cor i 3. 11, John xvi 
S3. 12, Acts xiv 22. 13 Isa liv 8. 14, 1 Cor iv 7. 

P 198, p 1, Eph v 15. 2, Prov xvi 21, xiv 8. 3, 
Prov xvii 27, xii 23. 4, Prov xv 28. 5, Piov xiv 
15. 6, Prov iii 21, ii 11. 7, Prov xix 11, xii 16. 
8, Amos v 12. 9, Piov xiii 16, xviii 15, xiv 18. 

P 199, pi, Prov xxii 3. 2, Hag i 5, 1 Thes v 
22. 3, Hab ii 20. 4, Ps cxxxviii 2. 5, Ps xlii 4, 

6, Ps lv 14. 7, Ps c 4. 8, Ps cvii 32. 9, Ps cxvi 
14. 10, Ps cxi 1. 11, Ps cxxxv 1, 2. 12, Eccl v 
1.13, Hebx24. 

P 200, p 1, Mat xviii 20. 2, Ps lxxxiv 10. 3, 
Gen xxviii 17. 4, Isa xxviii 16. 5, Luke xx 17. 6, 
1 Cor iii 11, Acts iv 12. 7, Luke i 68. 

P 201, p 1, Luke ii 27. 2, Rev v 9. 3, 1 John ii 
L 4, Gal iii 13. 

P 2C2, p 1, Heb ix 12.15. 2, 1 Cor i 30. 3, Rom 
iii 23. 4, Rom xi 32. 5, Rom v 1. 6, John i 12. 7, 
Rom x 9. 8, Rom x 4. 

P 203, p 1, John iii 16. 2, 1 John ii 23. 5, 1 Cor 
xv 3. 4, Rom xiv 9. 5, 2 Cor v 15. 6, Tit ii 11. 

7, 1 Tim ii 4. 8, Mat xviii 11, i 21, Heb vii 25, 
John xii 47. 9, Mat ix 12. 10, Rom v 8. 

P 204, p 1, Rom v 15. 2, Heb x 12. 3, 1 John 
v 12. 4, 1 Cor xvi 22. 5, John x 9. 

P 205, p 1, John vi 40. 2, 1 Tim i 15. 3, Acts 
xvi 30.4, Heb ii 3. 5, John iii 1, 5. 6, 1 John v 1. 

P 206, p 1, John i 11. 2, James i 18. 3, 1 Pat i 
22. 4, 1 John iii 9. 5, James ii 29, iii 10. 6, 1 John 
v 4. 7, Gal vi 14. 8, Rom vi 6. 9, Rom xii 2. 

P 207, p 1, 1 John v 2. 2, Rom viii 7. 3, J 



272 INDEX. 

ii 14. 4, Eph iv 22. 5, Rom vi 22. 6, Gal v £4. 7, 
Ps li 10. 8, 1 Pet iii 15. 9, Rom xiii 14. 10, 1 John 
ii 3. 11, 2 Cor v 17. 12, Gal v 16, 25. 13, Mat 
xviii 2. 

P 203, p 1, Mat xiv 2. 2, Mark i 15 3 3, Acts ii 
38. 4, Axts iii 19. 5, Ezek xviii 30. 6, Acts xxvi 
20,Luke iii 8. 7,Acts xvii 30, Luke xiii 3. 8, Luke 
xxiv 46. 9, Acts xx ^6. 

P 209, p 1, Jer vii 3. 2, Dan iv 27. 3, Isa Ivi 1. 

4, Rev xxi 6. 5, Rev xxii 17. 6, Isa i 16. 7, Ezek 
xviii 23. 8, Ezek xxxiii 11. 

P 210, p 1, Ezek xviii 31. 2, Joel ii 12. 3, Jar 
xviii 11. 4, 2 Kings xvii 13, Zech i 3. 5, Prov i 
£3. 6, James iv 7. 

P 21 1, p 1, Ps ix 12, lxix 32. % Prov iii 7, Jer 
iv 14. 3, Ezek xviii 27. 4, Luke xvi 9. 5, Mat xii 
£0. 6,Psxxxivl8. 7, Ps li 17. 8, Isa lvii 15. 9, 
lsalxvi2. 10, 2 Pet iii 9. 11, Mat xviii 14. 12, 
Prov xx vii 13. 

P 212, p 1, 1 John i 9. 2, Isa Iv 6. 3. James ii 
13, Luke xv 10, 7. 4, 2 Cor vi 17. 5, 1 Cor xv 34, 
Eph v 14, Mat xi 28. 6, John vi 35. 7, 2 Thes v 
19, Eph iv 30, v 9. 8, Ezek xviii 21. 

P 213, p 1, 1 Cor vii 1. 2, Heb vi 1. 3, Ps cix 
59. 4, Luke xv 18. 5, Ps li 3. 6, Isa i 5. 7, Job 
xiii 6. 8, Lam ii 29. 9, Lam iii 40. 10, Lam v 21. 

P 214,p 1, Ps li 9. 2, Psli 11. 3, Job xxxiv 31. 
4) 1 Pet iv 3, Rom xiii 11.5, John xii 35. 6. Acts 
xxiv 25. 7, 2 Cor vi 2. 8, Josh xxiv 15. 9, Ps 
xcv 7, Heb iii 7. 10, Rom ii 4. 1 1 , 2 Cor v 1 1 , 20. 

* P 215, p 1, Mat xxvii 2. 2, John xx 1. P 216, 
Mat xxviii 25, P 217, p 1, Mat xxviii 11 . 2, Luke 
xxiv 13. P218, John xx 19. P 219, Luke xxiv 
33. P 220, p 1, John xx 24. 2, 1 Cor xv 6. 3, 
Mat xxviii 16. P 221, p 1, 1 Cor xv 7, Acts i 3. 
2, Luke xxiv 50. 3 ? Acts i 10. 4, Luke xxiv 52. 

5. 2 Tim ii 8. 



INDEX. 273 

P 222, p 1, 1 Cor xv 3. 2, Acts vii 55. 3, 1 Pet 
ill 22. 4, Col iii 1. 5, Rom viil 28. 6, Job xxxvi 

11. 7, Ps xxxvi 25. 8,1 Pet iii 12. 9, Eccl vii 

12. 10, Prov xxviii 1. 

P 223, p 1, Prov xiii 21. 2, Job xv 20. 5, Ezek 
xviii 20, Jerxx :i 30. 4, Col iii 25. 5, Job iv 8. 
6, Gal vi 7. 7, Jer xvii 10. 8, Heb ix 27. 9, Acts 
xvii31. 10, Luke xii 48, 47. 

P 224, p 1, James iv 17. 2, Heb x 26. 3, Mat 
x 28. 4, Jobxxxi 3. 5, Mai iv 1. 6, Isa xxxv 10. 

P 225, p 1, Rev xxi 8. 2. 2 Thes if. 3, Mat v 
6. 4, Zeph ii 3, Ps cvi 3, Prov xiv 34. 5, Ps iv 5, 
Prov xv 9. 6, Ps Ixiv 10, xxxii 1 1, xxxvii 17, lv 
22. Prov xv 29, x 24. 7, Provxi 5, xv 19, Job xvii 
9/ 8, Prov xi6, 8,21. 

P 226, p 1, Prov xii 5, x 32, xi 23, xiii 9, x 28, 
xi 30, x 16. 2, Prov xvi 31.3, Prov xv 6, xii 7, 
Ps cxviii 15. 4, Ps xcii 12, Prov xi 31. 5, Ps v 12. 

6, Isa iii 10. 7, Ps hiii 11, Prov xi 18. 8, Prov xi 
19, x 2. 9, Isa xxxii 17. 10, Ps cxii 6, Prov x 25. 
11, Prov xiv 32, Nam xxiii 10. 

P227, p 1, Gen ii 1. 2, Lev xxxiii 3. 5, Exod 
xxiii 12. 4, Ezek xx 20. 5, Deut v 12. 6, Mat xii 
li:2. 7, Mat xii 11. 8, Rev i 10. 9, Mat xii 8. 10, 
Isa hiii ]3. 

P 228, p 1, Isa hi 2. 2, 1 Cori 21. 3, Isa xxxv 

8. 4, 2 Tim iii 16. 5, Rom xv 4. 6, John xx31. 

7, 2 Pet i 19. 

P 229, p 1, 2 Cor iv 6. 2, 2 Ptt iii 2. 3, John v 
39, Acts xvii 11. 4, Mat xxii 29. 5, 2 Pet iii 15. 
6, Jer xxiii 29. 7, Heb iv 12. 8, John xvii 17, Ps 
cxxxix 2, xii 6, Prov xxx 5. 

P 230, p 1 , Prov xiii 13. 2, Col iii 16. 3, 2 John 

9. 4, Ps xix 7. 5, Rom vii 12. 6, Ps cxix 1 13. 7, 
Pscxix 123. 8, 1 Peti 25, John xxii 17. 9, Mat 
vl8. 10, Acts v 38. 11, Ps cxix 9. 12, 1 Thes ii 13. 



274 INDEX. 

P 231, p 1, James i 21, 23. 2, Deut xi 18. 3, 
Deut iv 2. 4, Prov xxx 6. 5, Rev xxi 18. 6, Rom 
i 16. 

P 232, p 1, 2 Tim iii 15. 2, Heb xii 25. 3, Prov 
xxiv 28, xx 19. 4, Prov xxix 5. 5, 2 Kings iv 28, 
Ps ci 7. 6, Ps xxvi 4. 7, Mat xxiv 4, 1 Cor iii 18. 
8,Zech viii 10, Col iii 9, Eph iv 25. 9, Prov iii 3. 
10, Job vi 25, Jervii 4, Prov xii 19. 11, Ps lxiii 11. 
P 233, p 1, Prov xxiii 23, James iii ll,Zech viii 
16. 2, Jer vii 8, Lev xix 10. 3, Ps vii 14. 4, Prov 
xiii 5, xii 17. 5, Prov xii 22. 6, Ps Iv 23. 7, Prov 
xix 5, 9. 8, Rev xxii 15. 9, Ps xv 1 2. 10, Hos 
iv 2, Ps cxix 163, 29, Prov xxx 8. 11, Ps xliii 1. 
12, Ps cxx 2. 13, Prov iv 26, 2 Thes ii 2. 14, Prov 
xxiv 21, Luke xii 29. 15, Prov xvi 3. 

P 234, p 1, Ps xii 8. 2, Eph iv 14. 3, James i 6. 
4, Gen xlix 10. 5, 1 Cor xv 58. 6, Rom xiv 5. 7, 
2 Cor xiii 5, 1 Thes v 21. 8, 1 Pet i 5, 6. 9, 1 Cor 
ix 25. 10, Tit ii 12, 1 Cor vii 31. 11, Luke xxi 
34. 12, Isav 11. 

P 235, p 1, Isa v 22. 2, Hab ii 15. 3, Eph v 18. 
4, Prov xx 1. 5, Prov xxi 17. 6, Prov xxiii 20. 7, 
1 Cuv v 11. 8, Prov xxiii 29. 9, Isa xxviii 7. 10, 
Rom xiii 13. 11, 1 Thes v 6. 

P 236, p 1, Lev xix 11, Eph iv 28. 2, Zech v 3, 
4. 3, Hos iv 2, 3. 4, Ps 1 18, 21, Prov xxix 24. 5, 
Luke xii o3. 6, Ps xv 1, 3. 7, Prov iii 29. 8, Job 
xxiv 2, Lev xxiv 18. 9, Lev vi 4. 10, Job xxiv 2, 
Deut xix 14. 11, Prov xxii 28, xxiii 10. 12, Deut 
xxvii 17. 

P 237, p 1, 1 Pet v 8, 2 Tim iv 5. 2, Mat xxvi 
41. 3, Col iv 2. 4, 1 Thes v 6. 5, Rev iii 2. 6, 
Rev xvi 15. 7, Mat xxiv 42. 8, Luke xii 37. 9, 
Mat xxi 36. 10, Prov xii 3, xiv 34. 11, Prov xv 
26. 12, Prov xv 28. 13, Isa lvii £0. 14, Prov x 
24, Xiii 9, x 28, xv 9. 



INDEX. 275 

P 238, p 1, Prov xi 21, xiv 32, xi 5, Job xxi 30. 
3, Ps vi 11, cxlv 20, xi 6. 3, Provxv 8. 4, Prov 
xiii 6, xxi 12, xii 7. 5, Prov xv 29, Ps cxix 155. 

6, James i 15. 7, Prov i 10. 8, 1 Sam xii 25. 9, 
Isaiiill. 10, Ps xxxiv 2i. 11, Prov xi 7. 12, Ps 
vii 9. 13, Prov ix 10. 

_ P 239, p 1, Job xxviii 28. 2, Prov ii 2. 3, Prov 
iii 13. 4, Proviiil5. 5, Eccl vii 11. 6, Eccl ix 
16, 18. 7, Prov xii 8. 

P240,p 1, Prov xii 21, i 7. 2, Eccl ii 13. 3, 
Prov vii 4. 4, Eccl viii 5. 5, Eccl ix 17. 6, Prov 
i 5. 7, Prov xiii 14. 8, Prov xviii 4. 9, Prov xvi 
22. 10, Prov xiii 15. 11, Prov xix 8. 12, Eccl vii 
25. 13, Prov xi 29. 14, Prov xiii 20. 15, 1 Chr 
xxii 12, 2 Tim ii 7. 16, James i 5. 17, Ps xc 12. 
18, Col iv5. 

P 241, p 1, Mat x 16. 2. Rom xvi 19. 3, Prov 
i 22. 4, Prov xiv 9. 7. 5. Prov x 8. 6, Prov x 13. 

7, Provxiii 16, Eccl v 5. x 13, Prov xxix 11. 8, 
Prov i 7, x 21. 9, Prov xii 15. 10. Prov xiv 16. 

1 1 , Prov xiii 20. 1 2, Prov x 14. 1 3, Prov iii 35. 
14, Prov xi 30. 15, Dan xii 3. 

P 242, p 1, Rev iii 19, Gal iv 18. 2, 1 Cor xiv 

12. 3, 2 Cor vii 11. 4, 2 Cor ix 2. 3. 5, Isa lix 16. 
6, Ps lxix 9. 7, Ps cxix 139. 8, Num xxv 10. 9, 
Col iv 12. 

P 243, p 1, Rev iii 15. 2, Rom x 2. 3, Acts xrii 
2. 4, Gali 13,23. 5, 2 Cor xi 23. 

P 244, p 1, Ezek xxxvii 1. 

P 245, p 1, Joel ii 30. 2, Habiii 16. 3, Lam iv 
1. 4, Isa xii 19. 

P 246, p 1, Zech ii 13. 2, Lam i 1. 2. 3, Lam 
v!4. 4, JobxxxSl. 5,Pscxxxvii 1. 6, Song ii 11. 

*P 247, p 1, 1 Esd iv 35, 39, iii 12. 2. Keel iv 
25, v 10. 3, xl 12. 4. Tob iv 5. 5, xiv 9, Eccl ix 
16. 6, vii 10, iv 10, vii 35, 36, iv 9, 7, Tob iv 7, 



276 INDEX. 

8,-16. 8, Ecclivl. P248, p 1, Eccl xii 3. 2, 
xxii 23. 3, xxix 2. 4, xxix 4, 7. 5, viii 13. 6, v 1. 

7, x9. 8, xx 30. 9, vii 15, xl 18. 10. iii 17.' 11, 
xxxi 16. 12, xxxi 19. 13, xxxi 20. 14, xxxi 30. 
P 249, p 1, Eccl xxx 14. 2, Tob iv 13. 3, Ecci 
xxx 24. 4, xxxvii 16. 5, Tob iv 18. 6, Eccl xxxvii 
10. 7, viii 17. 8, vi 6. 9, i 29. 10, iv 23. 11, xxxii 

8, 12, viii 19. 13, iv 29. 14, xix 6. 15, xi 9. 16, 
Tob iv 14. 17, Eccl xxiii 9. P 250, p 1, Eccl xi 
7. 2, xi 8. S,v 11. 4, iii 25. 5, v 12. 6, xx 2. 7, 
xx 19. 8, viii 5. 9, xix 13. 10, ix 10, vi 15. 11, 
vii 18, xxvii 17. 12, xii 8. 13, viii 7. P 251, p 1, 
Eccl xxii 23. 2. xix 4. 5, xxxvii 19. 4, iii 23. 5, 
xxxiv 2. 6, xi 2. 7, xi 4. 8, xii 17, 23, xxvii 16. 

9, viii 18. 10, xiv 2. 11, vi 36. 12, Wisd of Sol 
1, 15. 13, Eccl vii 21. 14, Tob iv 14. 15, iv 13, 
Eccl vii 23. 16, xxxiii 19,23. P 252, p 1, Eccl 
xxvi 1. 2, xxvi 2. 3, xxvi 3, vii 26. 4, ix 1. 5 9 
xxv 8. 6, vii 25. 7, vii 27, 28. 8., Tob iv 3 9, 
Eccl iii 12. 



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